Full Description
Understanding Tablets from Early Childhood to Adulthood offers an alternative to dominant and populist narratives that young people are intuitively able to successfully use tablet devices. Adopting a research-driven approach, the book contests the ideology that touch-technologies are easier to understand, and identifies the factors that contribute to communicative encounters between users and tablets. Communication theory and cognitive psychology concepts and methods are employed to offer an epistemological exploration of user-tablet interaction with a focus on the use of these technologies in educational settings.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Studying Tablets
Chapter 2: Proposing a Model of User-Tablet Communication
Chapter 3: How Tablet Technology Influences User-Tablet Communication
Chapter 4: How the Mind Influences User-Tablet Communication
Chapter 5: Tablets as a Form of Screen Learning
Chapter 6: Tablets as a Form of "Hands-On" Learning
Chapter 7: User-Tablet Communication - A Complete Model
