Designing tangibles for children: What designers need to know

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2243-2248

  Antle, Alissa N ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Cognitive development; Dynamic systems; Embedded interaction; Learning; Tangible interaction

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTAL; TANGIBLE INTERACTION; TANGIBLE SYSTEMS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 35348831144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240866.1240988     Document Type: Conference Paper

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