Let's play Chinese characters: Mobile learning approaches via culturally inspired group games

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1603-1612

  Tian, Feng ^a   Lv, Fei ^a   Wang, Jingtao ^b   Wang, Hongan ^a   Luo, Wencan ^a   Kam, Matthew ^c   Setlur, Vidya ^d   Dai, Guozhong ^a   Canny, John ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

chinese education; chinese literacy; developing countries; ict4d; literacy acquisition; mobile games; traditional games

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PROCESS; CHINESE CHARACTERS; CHINESE EDUCATION; CHINESE LANGUAGE; ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT; GROUP LEARNING; MOBILE GAMES; MOBILE LEARNING; SELF-CORRECTION; WRITING SYSTEMS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 77954016918     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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