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  • 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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