Family story play: Reading with young children (and Elmo) over a distance

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1583-1592

  Raffle, Hayes ^a   Ballagas, Rafael ^a   Revelle, Glenda ^b   Horii, Hiroshi ^a   Follmer, Sean ^c   Go, Janet ^a   Reardon, Emily ^b   Mori, Koichi ^a   Kaye, Joseph ^a   Spasojevic, Mirjana ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop   (United States)

^c MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

agent; children; dialogic reading; family communication; grandparents; literacy; reading; video conferencing

Indexed keywords

BOOK READING; CHILDREN; DIALOGIC READING; DISTANCE COMMUNICATION; FAMILY COMMUNICATION; PAPER BOOK; QUALITY OF INTERACTION; STORY TELLING; VIDEO CONTENTS; YOUNG CHILDREN;

COMMUNICATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; VIDEO CONFERENCING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

EDUCATION;

EID: 77953983188     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753563     Document Type: Conference Paper

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