Chemical education using feelable molecules

Proceedings of Web3D 2009: The 14th International Conference on Web3D Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 7-14

  Davies, R Andrew ^a   Maskery, James S ^a   John, Nigel W ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemistry; Education; Haptics

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONCEPTS; CHEMICAL EDUCATION; HAPTIC APPLICATIONS; HAPTICS; PERL SCRIPTING; SCENE GRAPH; SPACE-FILLING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL; USER INTERFACES;

CHEMICAL REACTIVITY;

EID: 70350637295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1559764.1559766     Document Type: Article

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