Designing educational games for children with Specific Learning Difficulties: Insights from involving children and practitioners

Proceedings - 5th International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology, ICCGI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 195-198

  Al Wabil, Areej ^a   Meldah, Eman ^a   Al Suwaidan, Amal ^a   AlZahrani, Aljohara ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabic interface; Dyslexia; Eye tracking; Human computer interaction; Short term memory; SpLD; UCD

Indexed keywords

ARABIC INTERFACE; DYSLEXIA; EYE-TRACKING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPLD; UCD;

DESIGN; EDUCATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 79951869757     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCGI.2010.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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