Making dead history come alive through mobile game-play

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2249-2254

  Ardito, Carmelo ^a   Costabile, Maria Francesca ^a   Lanzilotti, Rosa ^a   Pederson, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Educational games; Mobile devices

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MOBILE DEVICES; STUDENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CELLULAR PHONES; EDUCATIONAL GAMES;

ANIMATION;

EID: 35348910794     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240866.1240989     Document Type: Conference Paper

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