Interaction and recognition challenges in interpreting children's touch and gesture input on mobile devices

ITS 2012 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 225-234

  Anthony, Lisa ^a   Brown, Quincy ^b   Nias, Jaye ^b   Tate, Berthel ^b   Mohan, Shreya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

n; android; child computer interaction; gesture recognition; mobile devices; surface gesture interaction; touch interaction; touchscreens

Indexed keywords

ANDROID; COMPUTER INTERACTION; GESTURE INPUT; GESTURE INTERACTION; INTERACTION METHODS; LEARNING ACTIVITY; TOUCH INTERACTION; TOUCH-SCREEN INTERACTION;

INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MOBILE DEVICES; TOUCH SCREENS;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84871306275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2396636.2396671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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