Children's intuitive gestures in vision-based action games

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-50

  Höysnilmi, Johanna ^a   Hämäläinen, Perttu ^b   Turkki, Laura ^b   Rouvi, Teppo ^c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c Finnish Telecommunication Company   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; COMPUTER GAMES - QUIQUI'S GIANT BOUNCE; HEARING TECHNOLOGY; INTUITIVE GAME CONTROLS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER VISION; DATA PROCESSING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); USER INTERFACES;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 17044415709     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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