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Teaching rhetorical skills with a tangible user interface

Authors:

Eleanor F. Toye,

Jennifer A. Rode,

Alan F. BlackwellAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '04: Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Interaction design and children: building a community

Pages 11 - 18

https://doi.org/10.1145/1017833.1017835

Published: 01 June 2004 Publication History

Abstract

We describe Webkit, an application which uses a large-screen graphical user interface and a tangible user interface to teach children important rhetorical skills. We discuss our evaluation of this application and possible future directions for computer-supported rhetorical applications.

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Teaching rhetorical skills with a tangible user interface
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing

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