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Installation to teach energy conservation to kids through tangible objects in an outdoor environment

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Samiksha Kothari,

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IITM '10: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia

Pages 311 - 315

https://doi.org/10.1145/1963564.1963618

Published: 27 December 2010 Publication History

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This paper presents a design case of an interactive installation in a contextual outdoor environment for helping kids learn about how to save energy in their day to day life activities. Playful Interaction, physical movement and manipulation of tangible objects were combined to create a playful learning experience linked to their daily behaviors. By eliminating traditional input devices like buttons and mouse, the underlying technology was made as invisible as possible to ensure an engaging and curiosity-arousing experience.

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Jones MVon Feldt MAndrus N(2022)Outside Where? A Survey of Climates and Built Environments in Studies of HCI outdoorsProceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491102.3507656(1-15)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3507656

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Installation to teach energy conservation to kids through tangible objects in an outdoor environment
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
    2. Interaction techniques
      1. Auditory feedback
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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IITM '10: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia

December 2010

355 pages

ISBN:9781450304085

DOI:10.1145/1963564

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M. D. Tiwari
IIIT Allahabad, India
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R. C. Tripathi
IIIT Allahabad, India
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Anupam Agrawal
IIIT Allahabad, India

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