Parents and children having and using technology: what should we ask?

In this paper, we report the findings from a study investigating children's responses to technologies they have within their home by comparing them with the responses given by their parents. The results indicate that children can report this information accurately as there was an 84% match between the responses of a parent and their child. Furthermore it appears that children do not associate items they have within the house with items their parents report they have access to as the match in responses fell to 74% in this case. The discussion focuses on the understanding of technology with the multi use nature of some technologies being a fascinating issue that must be taken into consideration.