Easy doesn't do it: Skill and expression in tangible aesthetics

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 657-676

  Djajadiningrat, Tom ^a,b   Matthews, Ben ^a   Stienstra, Marcelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Expression; Motor skill; Movement; Robotics; Tangible interaction

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; ROBOTICS;

MOTOR SKILL; TANGIBLE INTERACTION;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 35448967346     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-006-0137-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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