Building virtual spaces: Games as gatekeepers for the IT workforce

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 236, Issue , 2007, Pages 317-334

  Tapia, Andrea H ^a   El Nasr, Magy Seif ^a   Yucel, Ibrahim ^a   Zupko, Joseph ^a   Maldonado, Edgard ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACTION RESEARCH; CHARACTER DESIGNS; INFORMATION ECONOMY; INTERVENTION METHODS; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TECHNOLOGY-BASED; VIRTUAL SPACES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 35048897112     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-73025-7_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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