The gain and pain in taking the pilot seat: Learning dynamics in a non immersive virtual solar system

Virtual Reality

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 271-282

  Gazit, Elhanan ^a   Yair, Yoav ^b   Chen, David ^c  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Learning interactions; Virtual reality environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751102908     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-006-0053-3     Document Type: Article

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