Personalization in an interactive learning environment through a virtual character

Computers and Education

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 530-544

  Reategui, E ^a   Boff, E ^a   Campbell, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAXIAS DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive hypermedia; Recommender systems; User modelling; Virtual characters

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS (AHS); RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; USER MODELING; VIRTUAL CHARACTERS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 43849097371     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2007.05.018     Document Type: Article

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