Spatial visualization tests and their relationship to contemporary CAD tools: Advocating more than just mental rotations tests

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 12915-12923

  Hartman, N W ^a   Bertoline, G R ^a,b,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Envision Center for Data Perceptualization   (United States)

^c Department of Computer Graphics Technology ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DRAWING (GRAPHICS); STANDARDIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

ENGINEERING DESIGN GRAPHICS (EDG); MENTAL CUTTING TEST; ROTATIONS TESTS; SKETCHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 22544466430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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