Children and 'smart' technologies: Can children's experiences be interpreted and coded?

People and Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology - Proceedings of HCI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 224-231

  Xu, Diana Yifan ^a   Read, Janet C ^a   Sim, Gavin ^a   McManus, Barbara ^a   Qualter, Pam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Drawing; Evaluation; Fun; Tangible magic; Tangible technology; TUI; User experience

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DRAWING (GRAPHICS);

CHILDREN; EVALUATION; TANGIBLE MAGIC; TANGIBLE TECHNOLOGIES; USER EXPERIENCE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84860478744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2009.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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