Challenges in the development and evaluation of immersive digital educational games

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

Volumn 5298 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 19-30

  Law, Effie Lai Chong ^a   Kickmeier Rust, Michael D ^b   Albert, Dietrich ^b   Holzinger, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Immersive digital educational games; Marco adaptivity; Micro adaptivity; Reusability; User Experience; User experience

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; REUSABILITY; USER EXPERIENCE;

ADAPTIVITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; EDUCATIONAL GAME; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; MICRO ADAPTIVITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; USER EXPERIENCES (UX);

E-LEARNING;

EID: 70350662899     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89350-9_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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