Using scalable game design to promote 3D fluency: Assessing the AgentCubes Incremental 3D end-user development framework

Proceedings - 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 47-54

  Ioannidou, Andri ^a   Repenning, Alexander ^a   Webb, David ^b  

^a AGENTSHEETS INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D CONTENTS; 3D GAMES; 3D MODELS; AUTHORING ENVIRONMENTS; DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORKS; DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; EDUCATIONAL GOALS; GAME DESIGNS; MIDDLE SCHOOLS; USER STUDIES;

ANIMATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; GAME THEORY; LINGUISTICS; STANDARDIZATION; STUDENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 56349150050     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2008.4639057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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