An Empirical Investigation of Virtual Interaction in Supporting Learning

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 51-68

  Cao, Jinwei ^a   Crews, Janna M ^b   Lin, Ming ^c   Burgoon, Judee K ^d   Nunamaker, Jay F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c World Evolved Services   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

E learning; Question Answering; Technology Mediated Learning (TML); Virtual Interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 68749083590     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1390673.1390680     Document Type: Article

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