Adventure Author: A learning environment to support creative design

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 37-44

  Robertson, Judy ^a   Nicholson, Keiron ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Creativity; Game design; Software scaffolding

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MODEL CHECKING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMPUTER GAMES; GAME DESIGNS; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; SOFTWARE SCAFFOLDING;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 41149167764     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1297277.1297285     Document Type: Conference Paper

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