What's so "new" about "new media?": Comparing effective features of children's educational software, television, and magazines

Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Interaction Design and Children: Building a Community, IDC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 105-112

  Fisch, Shalom M ^a  

^a MediaKidz Research and Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Content; Cross media; Design; Education; Print; Television

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; EDUCATION; PRINTING; TELEVISION;

CONTENT; CROSS-MEDIA; EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS; EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE MEDIA; INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY; LITERATURE REVIEWS; TELEVISION PROGRAMS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84898572302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1017833.1017847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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