Cross-disciplinary approaches for developing serious games in Higher Education: Frameworks for Food Safety and Environmental Health Education

Proceedings of the 2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 161-165

  Rooney, Pauline ^a   O'Rourke, K C ^a   Burke, Greg ^a   Mac Namee, Brian ^a   Igbrude, Claudia ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Design; Environmental health; Food safety; Higher education; Serious games

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE PROCESS; COMMERCIAL OFF THE SHELVES; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY TEAMS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FOOD SAFETY; GAME DESIGN; GAMES DESIGNERS; HIGHER EDUCATION; HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS; SERIOUS GAMES; SPECIFIC LEARNING; TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE;

DESIGN; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; HEALTH;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70350046731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2009.32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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