An immersive virtual environment for learning sign language mathematics

ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Educators Program, SIGGRAPH '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Adamo Villani, Nicoletta ^a   Carpenter, Edward ^a   Arns, Laura ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D animation; 3D modeling; Sign language education; Virtual learning environments; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

3-D MODELING; 3D ANIMATION; 3D LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; GESTURE CONTROL; IMMERSIVE; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; SIGN LANGUAGE; USER INTERACTION; VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS;

ANIMATION; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; LINGUISTICS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; TERMINOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 70450228454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1179295.1179316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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