Children's narrative development through computer game authoring

Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Interaction Design and Children: Building a Community, IDC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 57-64

  Robertson, Judy ^a   Good, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

3D virtual reality environments; Computer game design; Story creation

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

3D VIRTUAL REALITY; EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS; EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS; LEARNING OPPORTUNITY; RECENT RESEARCHES; STORY CREATION; STORY WRITING; YOUNG PEOPLES;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 41149135576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1017833.1017841     Document Type: Conference Paper

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