Using the Observer to analyze learning in virtual worlds

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 400-407

  Gazit, Elhanan ^a   Chen, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 0348162588     PISSN: 07433808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195517     Document Type: Conference Paper

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