An internet-based design game as a mediator of children's environmental visions

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 127-151

  Kyttä, Marketta ^a   Kaaja, Mirkka ^a   Horelli, Liisa ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Affordances; Child friendly environments; Internet game; Participation; Person environment fit

Indexed keywords

CHILD; DESIGN; PERCEPTION;

ETELA-SUOMEN; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; HELSINKI; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0347033380     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916503254839     Document Type: Article

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