Design and evaluation of tangible interfaces for primary school children

Proceedings of the 6th international Conference on Interaction Design And Children, IDC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 209-212

  Xu, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Design; Evaluation; Fun; Methodology; Tangible; Usability

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE PRODUCTS; PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN; TANGIBLE INTERFACES; TANGIBLE TECHNOLOGY;

E-LEARNING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 41149110717     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1297277.1297331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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