Research Presentations Available:

• Testing Interactions That Do Not Exist
  Erik F. Strommen
  Presented at the Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference, Chicago, IL, June 11 - 13, 2008
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• User Input Devices for the Living Room
  Erik F. Strommen, Keith Daniels, Libby Hanna, Melissa Jacobson, Kirsten Risden
  Presented at the Dust or Magic Conference, Lambertville, NJ, November 4-6, 2007
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• Play? Learning? Both...or neither?
  Erik F. Strommen
  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association, San Diego, CA, April 12-16, 2004
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• Using Technology in Toys to Create Playful Learning Interactions
  Erik F. Strommen
  Presented at Jean Piaget Society Annual Meeting, June 5-7, 2003, Chicago, IL
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• Interacting with people versus interacting with machines: Is there a meaningful difference from the point of view of theory?
  Erik F. Strommen
  Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 2003, Tampa, FL
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• Interactive Toy Characters as Interfaces For Children
  Erik Strommen
  In E. Bergman (Ed.) Information Appliances and beyond (Morgan Kaufman Publishers, New York, 2000), pp. 257-298.
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• Emotional Interfaces for Interactive Aardvarks: Designing affect into social interfaces for children
  Erik Strommen and Kristin Alexander
  Strommen, E.F. and Alexander, K (1999). Emotional Interfaces for Interactive Aardvarks: Integrating affect into social interfaces for children, in Proceedings of ACM CHI'99 (May 1-3, 1999, Pittsburgh, PA) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (ACM/SIGCHI, New York).
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• Learning from Television With Interactive Toy Characters As Viewing Companions
  Erik Strommen and Kristin Alexander
  Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 15-18, 1999.
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• When the Interface is a Talking Dinosaur: Learning Across Media with ActiMates Barney
  Erik Strommen
  Strommen, E. F. (1998). When the interface is a talking dinosaur: Learning across media with ActiMates Barney, in Proceedings of ACM CHI'98 (April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, CA) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (ACM/SIGCHI, New York), 288-295.
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• Evolution of the Talking Dinosaur: The (Not So) Natural History of a New Interface for Children
  Erik Strommen, Kristin Alexander
  Presented at the Proceedings of ACM CHI'98 (April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, CA) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (ACM/SIGCHI, New York), 288-295.
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• Slow and steady wins the race?  Three-year-old children and pointing device use
  Erik F. Strommen, Glenda L. Revelle, Lisa M. Medoff, and Setarah Razavi
  Behaviour and Information Technology, 1996, Vol. 15, No. 1
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• Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! Children's Conceptions of Forests and Their Inhabitants
  Erik F. Strommen
  Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1995, Vol. 32, No. 7
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• How are living things alike and different? First graders' knowledge of basic life science concepts
  Erik F. Strommen
  Journal of Biological Education, 1995, Vol. 29, No. 4
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• Children's use of mouse-based interfaces to control virtual travel
  Erik Strommen
  Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI'94 conference on Human factors in computing systems: celebrating interdependence (April 1994, Boston, MA), pp. 401-410)
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• Formative Evaluation of a First-grade Multimedia Forest Environment
  Erik Strommen
  National Education Computing Conference, Boston, 1994
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• "Does Yours Eat Leaves?" Cooperative Learning in an Educational Software Task
  Erik F. Strommen
  Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1993, pp. 45-56.
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• Is It Easier to Hop or Walk? Development Issues in Interface Design
  Erik F. Strommen
  Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 8, 1993, pp. 337-352.
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• Talking Back to Big Bird: Preschool Users and a Simple Speech Recognition System
  Erik F. Strommen and Francine S. Frome
  Educational Technology Research and Development, 1993, Vol. 41, No. 1
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• Preschool Children at the Interface: A Cognitive Model of Device Difficulty
  Erik Strommen
  Proceedings of the Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 15th, 1993, New Orleans, LA., pp. 991-999.
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• Constructivism, Technology, and the Future of Classroom Learning
  Erik F. Strommen and Bruce Lincoln
  Education and Urban Society, Vol. 24, No. 4, August 1992 (pp. 466-476).
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• This button makes you go up: three-year-olds and the Nintendo controller
  Erik F. Strommen, Setareh Razavi and Lisa M. Medoff
  Applied Ergonomics 1992, Vol. 23, No. 6, (pp. 409-413)
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• Formative Studies in the Development of a New Computer Pointing Device for Young Children
  Erik F. Strommen
  Educational Technology, April 1992, (pp. 43-51)
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• "What did he say?": Speech Output in Preschool Software
  Erik Strommen
  National Educational Computing Conference, 1991, (pp. 149-151)
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• The Effects of Practice and Input Device Used on Young Children's Computer Control
  Glenda L. Revelle and Erik F. Strommen
  Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 1990, pp. 33-41.
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• Research in Interactive Technologies At the Children's Television Workshop
  Erik F. Strommen and Glenda L. Revelle
  Educational Technology Research and Development, 1990, Vol. 38, No. 4
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