Using immersive Virtual environments for realistic life-Size fire safety training for children

Proceedings of the 3rd IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 8-13

  Ericson, Emily ^a   Smith, Shana ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Children; Fire safety training; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; FIRE HAZARDS; FIRE PROTECTION; FIRES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CHILDREN; CLASSROOM ACTIVITY; CLASSROOM LEARNING; FIRE PROFESSIONALS; FIRE SAFETY; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; RESIDENTIAL FIRES; VIRTUAL SIMULATIONS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 62949147210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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