LightUp: A low-cost, multi-age toolkit for learning and prototyping electronics

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 225-226

  Asgar, Zain ^a   Chan, Joshua ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Blikstein, Paulo ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

constructionism; education; electronics; engineering education; tangible interfaces

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; CONSTRUCTIONISM; EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; LEARNING TOOL; LOW THRESHOLDS; PROJECT-BASED; PROTOTYPING TOOLS; TANGIBLE INTERFACES; USER FRIENDLY;

EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; USER INTERFACES;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 79960268284     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1999030.1999067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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