Of pages and paddles: Children's expectations and mistaken interactions with physical-digital tools

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 95-107

  Hornecker, Eva ^a,b   Dünser, Andreas ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Affordance; Augmented book; Hybrid tools; Intuitive interaction; Physicality; Tangible

Indexed keywords

AUGMENTED REALITY; DIGITAL DEVICES; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

AFFORDANCES; AUGMENTED BOOK; INTUITIVE INTERACTION; PHYSICALITY; TANGIBLE;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 59649098202     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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