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Selected Works of Jerry Alan Fails
Contribution to Book
Child's Play: A Comparison of Desktop and Physical Interactive Environments
IDC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (2005)
  • Jerry Alan Fails, University of Maryland
  • Allison Druin, University of Maryland
  • Mona Leigh Guha, University of Maryland
  • Gene Chipman, University of Maryland
  • Sante Simms, University of Maryland
  • Wayne Churaman, University of Maryland
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Abstract
The importance of play in young children's lives cannot be minimized. From teddy bears to blocks, children's experiences with the tools of play can impact their social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development. Today, the tools of play include desktop computers and computer-enhanced physical environments. In this paper, we consider the merits of desktop and physical environments for young children (4-6 years old), by comparing the same content-infused game in both contexts. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used for data collection and analysis.
Keywords
  • children,
  • educational applications,
  • games,
  • stories,
  • desktop,
  • physical interactive environments
Disciplines
Publication Date
2005
Editor
Mike Eisenberg and Ann Eisenberg
Publisher
Association of Computing Machinery
ISBN
1595930965
DOI
10.1145/1109540.1109547
Citation Information
Jerry Alan Fails, Allison Druin, Mona Leigh Guha, Gene Chipman, et al.. "Child's Play: A Comparison of Desktop and Physical Interactive Environments" New YorkIDC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (2005) p. 48 - 55
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jerry-fails/25/