On the design of Camelot, an outdoor game for children

Proceeding of the 2006 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC '06

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 9-16

  Verhaegh, Janneke ^a   Soute, Iris ^a   Kessels, Angelique ^a   Markopoulos, Panos ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Pervasive gaming; Social gaming

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MOBILE COMPUTING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS; MOBILE OUTDOOR GAMES; PERVASIVE GAMING; SOCIAL GAMING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 34247330175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1139073.1139082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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