Magic land: The design and evaluation of an interactive tabletop supporting therapeutic play with children

Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS '12

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 136-145

  Pykhtina, Olga ^a   Balaam, Madeline ^b   Wood, Gavin ^b   Pattison, Sue ^a   Kharrufa, Ahmed ^b   Olivier, Patrick ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

development research; expressive play medium; multi touch tabletop; play therapy; primary school children

Indexed keywords

DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES; EXPRESSIVE PLAY MEDIUM; INTERACTIVE TABLETOP; MULTI-TOUCH; PLAY THERAPY; PRIMARY SCHOOLS; YOUNG CHILDREN;

INTERACTIVE DEVICES;

DESIGN;

EID: 84864742244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2317956.2317978     Document Type: Conference Paper

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