Designing a technological playground: A field study of the emergence of play in household messaging

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 2351-2360

  Lindley, Siân E ^a   Harper, Richard ^a   Sellen, Abigail ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

communication; family; friendship; games; messaging; photography; play; scribble; situated display

Indexed keywords

DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; FIELD STUDIES; FRIENDSHIP; MESSAGING DEVICES; SITUATED DISPLAYS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; PHOTOGRAPHY;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 77953986049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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