Bio-edutainment: Learning life science through X gaming

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-9

  Cai, Yiyu ^a   Lu, Baifang ^a   Fan, Zhaowei ^a   Indhumathi, Chandrasekaran ^a   Lim, Kian Teck ^a   Chan, Ching Wern ^a   Jiang, Yuan ^a   Li, Lin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biology; Computer gaming; Edutainment; Protein structure; VR

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; GAME THEORY; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROTEINS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

BIO-EDUTAINMENT; COMPUTER GAMING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 30344474277     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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