Designing tangible interfaces for children's collaboration

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 853-868

  Africano, Diana ^a   Lundholm, Peter ^a   Berg, Sara ^a   Nilbrink, Fredrik ^a   Lindbergh, Kent ^a   Persson, Anna ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Children; Co present collaboration; CSCL; Interaction design; Product design; Research oriented design; Tangible user interfaces

Indexed keywords

CHILDREN; CO-PRESENT COLLABORATION; CSCL; INTERACTION DESIGN; TANGIBLE USER INTERFACES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DESIGN; USER INTERFACES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84876761003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/985921.985945     Document Type: Conference Paper

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