Adapting playgrounds for children's play using ambient playware

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5625-5630

  Derakhshan, Alireza ^a   Hammer, Frodi ^a   Lund, Henrik Hautop ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TILE;

PLAYGROUND; SENSING FORCE;

RECREATION CENTERS;

EID: 34250619260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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