Moved to learn: The effects of interactivity in a Kinect-based literacy game for beginning readers

Computers and Education

Volumn 74, Issue , 2014, Pages 37-49

  Homer, Bruce D ^a   Kinzer, Charles K ^b   Plass, Jan L ^c   Letourneau, Susan M ^a   Hoffman, Dan ^b   Bromley, Meagan ^c   Hayward, Elizabeth O ^c   Turkay, Selen ^b   Kornak, Yolanta ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialogic reading; Digital games; E book; Gesture based interactions; Literacy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

DIALOGIC READING; DIGITAL GAMES; E-BOOKS; GESTURE-BASED INTERACTION; LITERACY;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84894224730     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2014.01.007     Document Type: Article

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