Increasing children's social competence through games, an exploratory study

Proceedings of IDC 2009 - The 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 182-185

  Hendrix, Koen ^a   Van Herk, Robert ^a   Verhaegh, Janneke ^a   Markopoulos, Panos ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Shyness; Social competence; Social games

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL GAME; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; INTERACTIVE TABLETOP; MEAN AGES; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; SMALL GROUPS; TANGIBLE USER INTERFACES;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 70450241011     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1551788.1551823     Document Type: Conference Paper

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