Suitability of searching and representing multimedia learning resources in a 3-D virtual gaming environment

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1830-1839

  El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb ^a   Rahman, A S M Mahfujur ^a   Hossain, M Anwar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

3 D information visualization; Edutainment; Information clustering; Metadata; Multimedia learning resources; Multimodal interaction; Performance measurements; Virtual environment (VE)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDUCATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

3-D INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; EDUTAINMENT; INFORMATION CLUSTERING; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; METADATA; MULTIMEDIA LEARNING RESOURCES; MULTIMODAL INTERACTION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; RENDERING PERFORMANCE; SEARCH RESULTS; USER PERCEPTIONS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT (VE); VIRTUAL GAMING; VISUAL QUALITIES; WEB PAGES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 49549094031     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.919867     Document Type: Article

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