What's going on?: Discovering what children understand about handwriting recognition interfaces

Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 135-140

  Read, Janet C ^a   MacFarlane, Stuart ^a   Casey, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Design; Handwriting recognition; Interaction; Mental models; Requirements; Text entry; Usability

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DESIGN;

CHILDREN; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; INTERACTION; MENTAL MODEL; REQUIREMENTS; TEXT ENTRY; USABILITY;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84900394957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/953536.953555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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