Emotional interfaces for interactive aardvarks: Designing affect into social interfaces for children

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 528-535

  Strommen, Erik ^a   Alexander, Kristin ^b  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b Knowledge Kids Enterprises   (United States)

Author keywords

Audio interface; Children; Emotion; Learning; Social interface

Indexed keywords

AUDIO INTERFACES; CHILDREN; EMOTION; LEARNING; SOCIAL INTERFACES;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; USER INTERFACES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

AUDIO INTERFACES; EMOTIONAL INTERFACES;

EID: 0032644647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/302979.303152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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