Adoption of virtual reality within construction processes: A factor analysis approach

Technovation

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 111-120

  Fernandes, Kiran Jude ^a,e   Raja, Vinesh ^b,f,g,h,i   White, Andrew ^c   Tsinopoulos, Christos Dimitris ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Associate Parliamentary Engineering Group   (United Kingdom)

^f Associate Parliamentary Engineering Group ^*  (United Kingdom)

^g Sun European Manufacturing Center of Excellence (SEMCOE)   (United Kingdom)

^h Reverse Engineering Center (REC)   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Virtual Reality Center (VRC)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Virtual reality; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL ECONOMY; VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY;

COMPETITION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; VISUALIZATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 28044437188     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2004.07.013     Document Type: Article

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