People in books: Using a FlashCam to become part of an interactive book for connected reading

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 685-694

  Follmer, Sean ^a   Ballagas, Rafael ^b   Raffle, Hayes ^c   Spasojevic, Mirjana ^b   Ishii, Hiroshi ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

background subtraction; children's literacy; family communication; reading; video conferencing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE READING; BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION; CHILDREN'S LITERACY; COST EFFECTIVE; E-BOOKS; FAMILY COMMUNICATION; INTERACTIVE BOOKS; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; READING; TABLET COMPUTER; VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MOBILE DEVICES; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84858273107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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