04-11-2024
Preschoolers in front of the screen: let's turn it off so they can connect!
Preschoolers who use mobile devices more frequently have lower quality and quantity of parent-child interaction than their peers who do not use them. We...
07-03-2022
A presentation by Caroline Fitzpatrick, a famous researcher, on digital device use by children and adolescents
Caroline Fitzpatrick, professor at Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) and a visiting research fellow at the University of Johannesburg. She is also a Tier II...
07-29-2020
Visit at the summer camp
We went to the summer camp of the National Talent Center, where we showed the kids what we are up to in the Alpha Generation Lab. We did some symbol...
07-27-2020
Alphie is available in the Google Play Store!
Our game application for children, Alphie can be downloaded for free! The application, developed by psychologists, biologists and IT specialists at the Alpha...
05-21-2019
A comment related to the WHO recommendation about screen time under the age of 5
The recently published WHO (World Health Organization) recommendation about the amount of time spent in front of the screen (tv, tablet, phone) is widespread....
12-07-2018
Children using mobile devices pay attention more on details, than global picture
In our recent study journalist of Dívány participated with her daughter. She shared their experiences in an...
11-20-2018
Researcher of the week: our coworker, Veronika Konok
Magazine Life and Science asked our coworker, Veronika Konok about her research activity. She talked about her work in the Alpha Generation Lab, as well :)...
11-09-2018
Alpha Generation Lab open day and playground
On the open day of Alpha Generation Lab children could play with digital and traditional educational games. Meanwhile parents shared their experiences about...
11-07-2018
Talk in the 3rd district baby and mom club
Budapest, 3rd district baby and mom club invited Alpha Generation Lab to speak about digital childhood. In an interactive talk current scientific results were...
10-02-2018
Games in virtuality and reality - Researchers' Night 2018
Alpha Generation Lab participated in Researchers' Night with a playful event for preschoolers. They could play online and offline bubble popping, memory game,...
09-07-2018
How digital world changes our brain?
You will know from our article published in Dívány, what is Google effect, how reversed socialization works, which benefits could serve computer games....
06-01-2018
Game up! - Educational game release with collaboration of ELTE Faculty of Informatics
New educational games - as part of the Good Mobile project - has been released. Games were produced by students of Department of Media and Pedagogical...
04-27-2018
Good mobile or bad mobile? - Our team gave a presentation on the conference of Pest area's Pedagogical Council.
On 16th April our work in the Alpha Generation Lab was introduced to psychologists and teachers on the conference of Pest area's Pedagogical Council. First our ...