Designing and testing a tangible interface prototype

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 25-28

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Evaluation designs; Experimental prototypes; Tangible interface; Usability; Validity

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION DESIGNS; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPES; MODIFIED PROTOTYPES; TANGIBLE USER INTERFACE (TUI) PROTOTYPE;

INFORMATION USE; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE TESTING; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 41149139503     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1297277.1297282     Document Type: Conference Paper

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