Earth and planetary system science game engine

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5660 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 203-218

  Brown Simmons, Gloria J ^a   Kuester, Falko ^a   Knox, Christopher J H ^a   Yamaoka, So ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth system science; Edutainment; Game engines; Scientific visualization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA VISUALIZATION; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

DYNAMIC VISUALIZATION; EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE; EDUTAINMENT; GAME ENGINE; GLOBAL COLLABORATION; INTUITIVE INTERFACES; USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 69949129479     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03270-7_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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