The literacy fieldtrip: Using UbiComp to support children's creative writing

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 17-24

  Halloran, John ^a,c   Hornecker, Eva ^b,c   Fitzpatrick, Geraldine ^c   Weal, Mark ^d   Millard, David ^d   Michaelides, Danius ^d   Cruickshank, Don ^d   De Roure, David ^d  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Creative writing; Interaction design; Literacy skills; Qualitative study; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SENSORS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

CREATIVE WRITING; EDUCATIONAL TECHNIQUES; FIELDTRIPS; INTERACTION DESIGN; LITERACY SKILLS; QUALITATIVE STUDY;

TEACHING;

EID: 34247364076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1139073.1139083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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