Investigating children's opinions of games: Fun toolkit vs. this or that

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 70-77

  Sim, Gavin ^a   Horton, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

child computer interaction; evaluation methods; user experience

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERACTION; EVALUATION METHOD; ORDERING EFFECTS; TABLET PCS; USER EXPERIENCE;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

EID: 84864304963     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2307096.2307105     Document Type: Conference Paper

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