Teaching ubicomp with sense

NordiCHI 2010: Extending Boundaries - Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 765-768

  Richards, Mike ^a   Smith, Neil ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Graphical languages; Programming; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; GRAPHICAL LANGUAGES; GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SMART DEVICES; UBICOMP; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

EDUCATION COMPUTING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS; TEACHING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 78650092879     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1868914.1869024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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