Being playful - Learning from children

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 3-9

  Dix, Alan ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creativity; Imagination; Play; Virtual crackers

Indexed keywords

CREATIVE PLAY; CREATIVITY; IMAGINATION; INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS; INTERFACE DESIGNS; PLAY; VIRTUAL CRACKERS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84943650103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/953536.953538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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