QWERTY and the art of designing microcontrollers for children

Proceedings of IDC 2011 - 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 234-237

  Blikstein, Paulo ^a   Sipitakiat, Arnan ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

education; interaction design; physical computing; robotics

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING; HARDWARE DESIGN; HISTORICAL ANALYSIS; INTERACTION DESIGN; INTERACTIVE ARTS; PHYSICAL COMPUTING;

CONTROLLERS; DESIGN; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; MICROCONTROLLERS; ROBOTICS; USER INTERFACES;

ARTS COMPUTING;

EID: 79960239017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1999030.1999070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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