Designing a head-up game for children

Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction, BCS HCI 2008

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 45-53

  Hendrix, Koen ^a   Yang, Guo ^a   Van De Mortel, Dirk ^a   Tijs, Tim ^a   Markopoulos, Panos ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Design for children; Head Up Games; Pervasive technology

Indexed keywords

DESIGN FOR CHILDREN; DESIGN PROCESS; ELECTRONIC GAMES; HEAD-UP; PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGIES; PLAY TESTING; TARGET GROUP;

EID: 84923820341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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