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ACMIDC
2010
13 years 5 months ago
vSked: an interactive visual schedule system for use in classrooms for children with autism
Children with autism often experience substantial challenges in understanding, structuring, and predicting the activities in their daily lives. The use of symbols to represent a s...
Michael T. Yeganyan, Meg Cramer, Lou Anne Boyd, Gi...
INTERACT
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Interactive Floor Support for Kinesthetic Interaction in Children Learning Environments
Abstract. This paper introduces a novel kinesthetic interaction technique for interactive floors. The interaction techniques utilize vision-based limb tracking on an interactive fl...
Kaj Grønbæk, Ole Sejer Iversen, Karen...
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Girls Creating Games: Challenging Existing Assumptions about Game Content
In a reinforcing cycle, few females create games and fewer girls than boys play games. In this paper, we increase our understanding of what girls like about games and gaming by de...
Jill Denner, Steven Bean, Linda L. Werner
ECTEL
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Experience Structuring Factors Affecting Learning in Family Visits to Museums
Abstract. This paper describes the design and evaluation of an adaptive museum guide for families. In the Kurio system, a mixture of embedded and tangible technology imbues the mus...
Marek Hatala, Karen Tanenbaum, Ron Wakkary, Kevin ...
IE
2007
13 years 9 months ago
The tale of Peter Rabbit: a case-study in story-sense reasoning
The telling and understanding of stories is a universal part of human experience. If we could reproduce even part of the process inside a computer, it could expand the possibiliti...
Malcolm Ryan, Nicholas Hannah, Joshua Lobb