Drawing on ethnographic research with children in Athens, the authors examine sensual, performative and embodied aspects of children’s photographic representations a monument that is central Greek national, cultural historical discourse, Acropolis. Moving away from hermeneutics domination, focus this article how pictures depicted they were used by children. Assuming an analytical framework whic...

In this paper we discuss the potential of iPads for supporting literacy learning in special education, with a focus on how the gestural and sensory experience of touch can enable young learners with moderate to complex physical and/or cognitive disability to engage in fun, independent and inclusive classroom-based literacy activities. We report on a case study where we observed the literacy lea...

Abstraet--A new discrimination function is presented for segmenting touching characters based on both pixel and profile projections. A dynamic recursive segmentation algorithm is developed for effectively segmenting touching characters. Contextual information and spell checking are used to correct errors caused by incorrect recognition and segmentation. Based on 12 real documents, a maximum 99....

content and the comprehension of learned concepts. Based on this body of research, Segal, Black, and Tversky (2010) showed that gestural interfaces that incorporate the haptic aspect of touching the interface and manipulating the objects by using sensori-motor input could benefit users‟ comprehension of learned concepts. They hypothesized that by touching the objects on a screen directly with a...