VE-based training strategies for acquiring survey knowledge

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-18

  Witmer, Bob G ^b   Sadowski, Wallace J ^a   Finkelstein, Neal M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPATIAL LEARNING;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SURVEYING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 18744394599     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/105474602317343622     Document Type: Article

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