Investigating the educational effectiveness of multiplayer online games for children

Proceedings of the 6th international Conference on Interaction Design And Children, IDC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 29-36

  Garzotto, Franca ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Children; Collaborative learning; Empirical testing; Heuristics; Inspection; Multiplayer game; On line edutaiment; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; E-LEARNING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; EMPIRICAL TESTING; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; ON-LINE EDUTAIMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 41149119068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1297277.1297284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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