Contingent experience with touchscreens promotes parent-child conversations

Touchscreen devices are characterized as contingent interactive media because they respond synchronously to touch behaviors. This study examined the quantity of parent-child conversations in which 2-year-olds (24–26 months) and their mothers played a game application on a touchscreen. Both mothers and children talked more often when the touchscreen provided contingency for their touches. Furthermore, the numbers of maternal and child utterances...