Handcrafted physical syntax elements for illetterate children: Initial concepts

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 157-160

  Smith, Andrew Cyrus ^a  

^a African Advanced Institute for Information and Communications Technology   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Clay; Craft; Illetterate; Interface; Program; Sculpt; Stone; Syntax; Tangible

Indexed keywords

CODING SEQUENCES; CRAFT; INTERFACE PROGRAM; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; SYNTAX ELEMENTS;

STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

CLAY MINERALS;

EID: 70450231885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1463689.1463745     Document Type: Conference Paper

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