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Trees of life: models of children's creative processes

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DIS '06: Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1142405.1142464

Published: 26 June 2006 Publication History

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Children possess vivid imaginations and freely, almost impulsively, share new knowledge with peers. At times, they also create art spontaneously or in response to powerful experiences. How can we best design interfaces to virtual and augmented reality technologies to support children in their independent quests for knowledge and acts of creation? In this paper I introduce a prototype of a virtual environment that is intended to support scientific inquiry and artistic creativity for young children.

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Trees of life: models of children's creative processes
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Interface design prototyping

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DIS '06: Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems

June 2006

384 pages

ISBN:1595933670

DOI:10.1145/1142405

General Chair:
John M. Carroll
The Pennsylvania State University, USA
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Susanne Bødker
Aarhus University, Denmark
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Julie Coughlin
The Pennsylvania State University, USA

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