Augmenting spatial skills with mobile devices

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1611-1620

  Boari, Doug ^a   Fraser, Mike ^a   Fraser, Danaë Stanton ^b   Cater, Kirsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mental rotation; Mobile interactions; Spatial skills

Indexed keywords

3D ROTATION; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; MENTAL ROTATION; MOBILE INTERACTION; SPATIAL ABILITIES; SPATIAL SKILLS; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TABLET PCS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; TELEPHONE SETS;

MOBILE DEVICES;

EID: 84862075823     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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