Database and narratological representation of Australian Aboriginal knowledge as information visualisation using a game engine

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 237-242

  Pumpa, Malcolm ^a,b   Wyeld, Theodor G ^b,c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Australian CRC for Interactive Design ^*  (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal knowledge domain; Narrative as metadata; Torque game engine as information interface

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; VISUALIZATION;

DIRECT EXPERIENCE; EFFICIENT METHODS; GAME ENGINES; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; MULTI DIMENSIONAL; NEW APPROACHES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) GAME; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 45149127096     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2006.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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