"Looking at the computer but doing it on land": Children's interactions in a tangible programming space

People and Computers XIX - The Bigger Picture, Proceedings of HCI 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3-18

  Fernaeus, Ylva ^a   Tholander, Jakob ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Children and programming; Embodied interaction; Interaction design and children; Physical programming; Tangible interaction

Indexed keywords

CO-LOCATED; COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES; COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTION; EMBODIED INTERACTION; EXTERNAL RESOURCES; INTERACTION DESIGN AND CHILDREN; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; PHYSICAL PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING ACTIVITIES; TANGIBLE INTERACTION; TANGIBLE RESOURCES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 79957967559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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