Are tangibles more fun?: Comparing children's enjoyment and engagement using physical, graphical and tangible user interfaces

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 191-198

  Xie, Lesley ^a   Antle, Alissa N ^a   Motamedi, Nima ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Engagement; Enjoyment; Interface style; Play; Puzzles; Tangible user interfaces

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; DATA STRUCTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ENJOYMENT; INTERFACE STYLE; PUZZLES; TANGIBLE USER INTERFACES;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 42549103057     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1347390.1347433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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