Narrative Construction Kits: “Who am I? Who are you? What are we?”

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-99-01, Issue , 1999, Pages 44-51

  Bers, Marina Umaschi ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; COMPLEX CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION KIT; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; MULTIUSER ENVIRONMENTS; WEB BASED;

EID: 0343797762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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