Immersive chemistry video game

ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Educators Program, SIGGRAPH '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Morales, Carlos ^a   Weaver, Gabriela ^a   Maicher, Kellen ^a   Danforth, Doug ^a   Martínez Hernández, Kermin ^a   Pedela, Ryan ^a   Elkin, Eugene ^a   Nattam, Naveen ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Game development; Instructional games; Pedagogical games

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS TECHNOLOGY; FIRST PERSON SHOOTER; GAME DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN SUBJECTS; IMMERSIVE; INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER; PURDUE UNIVERSITY; VIDEO GAME;

EDUCATIONAL MOTION PICTURES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TEACHING;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 70450237613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1179295.1179346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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