Developing a multi-touch serious game to fight the digital divide - The Portuguese ATM: A pilot case study

Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Carvalho, Diana ^a   Bessa, Maximino ^a   Peres, Emanuel ^a   Magalhães, Luís ^a   Guedes, Carlos ^b   Oliveira, Lia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

ATM; Digital Divide; HCI; Multi touch; Natural User Interfaces; Serious Games

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINES; DIGITAL DIVIDE; DIGITAL WORLD; EASE-OF-USE; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INTERACTION PARADIGM; MULTI-TOUCH; SERIOUS GAMES; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 84869078746     PISSN: 21660727     EISSN: 21660735     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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