Learning from preschool children's pointing sub-movements

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 65-72

  Hourcade, Juan Pablo ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Children; Human computer interaction; Mouse; Pointing tasks; Sub movements

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS);

CHILDREN; POINTING TASKS; VISUAL TARGETS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247399973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1139073.1139093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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