Sidh - A game based firefighter training simulation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 899-907

  Backlund, Per ^a   Engström, Henrik ^a   Hammar, Cecilia ^b   Johannesson, Mikael ^a   Lebram, Mikael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Rescue Services Agency   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIREFIGHTER TRAINING SIMULATORS; GAMES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PERSONNEL TRAINING; STUDENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ANIMATION;

EID: 35348848586     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2007.100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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