Extending tangible interfaces for education: Digital montessorl-inspired manipulatives

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 859-868

  Zuckerman, Oren ^a   Arida, Saeed ^b   Resnick, Mitchel ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital manipulatives; Education; Simulation; Toys; TUI

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

DIGITAL MANIPULATIVES; TOYS; TUI;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 80051469949     PISSN: 02749696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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