UbiPlay: An interactive playground and visual programming tools for children

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 129-136

  Mattila, Jussi ^a   Väätänen, Antti ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Children; Interactive environments; Playgrounds; Visual programming environments

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; TEACHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CHILDREN; SENSOR TECHNOLOGY; VISUAL PROGRAMMING;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 34247352870     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1139073.1139106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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