Building virtual worlds for informal science learning (SciCentr and SciFair) in the Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU)

Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 21-26

  Corbit, M ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Avatars; Buildings; Computational modeling; Educational institutions; Internet; Intrusion detection; Mathematical model; MATLAB; Mortar; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPUTATION THEORY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERNET; INTRUSION DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATLAB; MORTAR;

AVATARS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CORNELL UNIVERSITY; EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY; EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS; SPATIAL FRAMEWORK;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0012177938     PISSN: 15244547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ENABL.2000.883699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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