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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 4 days ago
Telling the whole story: anticipation, inspiration and reputation in a field deployment of TellTable
We present a field study of TellTable, a new storytelling system designed to support creativity and collaboration amongst children. The application was deployed on a multitouch in...
Xiang Cao, Siân E. Lindley, John Helmes, Abi...
JCDL
2009
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Designing the reading experience for scanned multi-lingual picture books on mobile phones
This paper reports on an adaption of the existing PopoutText and ClearText display techniques to mobile phones. It explains the design rationale for a freely available iPhone appl...
Benjamin B. Bederson, Alexander J. Quinn, Allison ...
ACMIDC
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Designing intergenerational mobile storytelling
Informal educational experiences with grandparents and other older adults can be an important component of childrens education, especially in circumstances where high quality educ...
Allison Druin, Benjamin B. Bederson, Alexander J. ...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Readability of scanned books in digital libraries
Displaying scanned book pages in a web browser is difficult, due to an array of characteristics of the common user's configuration that compound to yield text that is degrade...
Alexander J. Quinn, Chang Hu, Takeshi Arisaka, Ann...
LAWEB
2009
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Conceptual Metaphors for Designing Multi-cultural Applications
—This paper proposes a set of conceptual metaphors for the design of multi-cultural systems. The work is part of a long-term study to adapt the International Children's Digi...
Luciana Cardoso de Castro Salgado, Clarisse Siecke...