Social enrichment by virtual characters - Differential benefits

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 405-418

  Gulz, A ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Empirical; Individual differences; Pedagogical agents; Relation oriented; Secondary school students; Strictly task oriented; Virtual characters

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144533332     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2005.00147.x     Document Type: Article

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