Posey: Instrumenting a poseable hub and strut construction toy

TEI'08 - Second International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 39-46

  Weller, Michael Philetus ^a   Do, Ellen Yi Luen ^b   Gross, Mark D ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Georgia Tech

Author keywords

Construction kits; Poseable; Tangible; Toys

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; USER INTERFACES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ASSEMBLED MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; CONSTRUCTION KIT; PHOTOSENSORS; TOYS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 42549086133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1347390.1347402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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