Children as design partners and testers for a children's digital library

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1923, Issue , 2000, Pages 249-258

  Theng, Yin Leng ^a   Nasir, Norliza Mohd ^a   Thimbleby, Harold ^a   Buchanan, George ^a   Jones, Matt ^a   Bainbridge, David ^b   Cassidy, Noel ^c  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c St Albans School   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

DESIGN FEATURES; DESIGN PHILOSOPHY; DIGITAL LIBRARIES (DLS); GOOD DESIGNS; IN-BUILDINGS; RESEARCH APPROACH;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84937440632     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45268-0_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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