Wafa Almukadi
ABSTRACT
We demonstrate BlackBlocks, a low-cost portable prototype work as a tangible user interface for children aged 4 to 8 to support language and math learning. This prototype is used as a research instrument to compare learning between toy blocks and a tangible system. A comparative experiment was performed with 18 children for evaluating the effects of learning method.
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- BlackBlocks: Tangible Interactive System for Children to Learn 3-Letter Words and Basic Math
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