Hands on what? Comparing children's mouse-based and tangible-based interaction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 80-88

  Antle, Alissa N ^a   Droumeva, Milena ^a   Ha, Daniel ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Comparative experiment; Digital tabletop; Embodied interaction; Evaluation; Input methods; Interaction styles; Jigsaw puzzle; Methodology; Object manipulation; Tangible computing; Tangible interaction; Video analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; DIGITAL TABLETOPS; EMBODIED INTERACTION; INPUT METHODS; INTERACTION STYLES; JIGSAW PUZZLES; OBJECT MANIPULATION; TANGIBLE COMPUTING; TANGIBLE INTERACTION; VIDEO ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EXPERIMENTS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 70450253437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1551788.1551803     Document Type: Conference Paper

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