Letting every pupil learn Japanese hand alphabets with visual interfaces

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1363-1366

  Namatame, Miki ^a   Harada, Yasushi ^b   Kusunoki, Fusako ^b   Terano, Takao ^c  

^a TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TAMA ART UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Classroom experiments; Learning hand characters; Visual interface

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HUMAN INTERACTION; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; LEARNING HAND CHARACTERS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; VISUAL INTERFACE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; TEACHING;

VISUAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 84876755145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/985921.986065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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