Soft toys with computer hearts: Building personal storytelling environments

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 22-27-March-1997, Issue , 1997, Pages 20-21

  Umaschi, Marina ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Authoring environments; Learning; Metaphorical objects; Personal storytelling; Physical interfaces

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AUTHORING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING; METAPHORICAL OBJECTS; PERSONAL STORYTELLING; PHYSICAL INTERFACE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 85008415036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1120212.1120227     Document Type: Conference Paper

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