Beyond record and play backpacks: Tangible modulators for kinetic behavior

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 681-690

  Raffle, Hayes ^a   Parkes, Amanda ^a   Ishii, Hiroshi ^a   Lifton, Joshua ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Digital Manipulative; Education; Learning; Modular Robotics; Programming by Demonstration; Tangible Interface; Toy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DIGITAL DEVICES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

CHILDREN; DIGITAL MANIPULATIVE; MODULAR ROBOTICS; PROGRAMMING BY DEMONSTRATION; TANGIBLE INTERFACE; TOY;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745828386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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