Opening new dimensions for e-Tourism

Virtual Reality

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 75-87

  Berger, Helmut ^a   Dittenbach, Michael ^a   Merkl, Dieter ^b   Bogdanovych, Anton ^c   Simoff, Simeon ^c   Sierra, Carles ^d  

^a E Commerce Competence Center   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

E-TOURISM; GAME ENGINE;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 34347376006     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-006-0057-z     Document Type: Article

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