Haptics in education: Exploring an untapped sensory modality

Review of Educational Research

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 317-348

  Minogue, James ^a   Jones, M Gail ^b  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Educational technology; Haptics; Learning; Multimodality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749583655     PISSN: 00346543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/00346543076003317     Document Type: Review

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