Evaluation of Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) for and with children - Methods and challenges

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4551 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 1008-1017

  Xu, Diana ^a   Read, Janet C ^a   Mazzone, Emanuela ^a   MacFarlane, Stuart ^b   Brown, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Independent Consultant ^*

Author keywords

Children; Evaluation; Fun; Tangible User Interface (TUI); Usability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

CHILDREN; EVALUATION; TANGIBLE USER INTERFACE (TUI);

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 38349142261     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73107-8_111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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