Multimodal interfaces for educational virtual environments

PCI 2009 - 13th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 197-201

  Christopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Gaitatzes, Athanasios ^a  

^a Foundation of the Hellenic World   (Greece)

Author keywords

Educational applications; Multi user environments; Natural interfaces; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

3D SIMULATIONS; EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS; EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY; EDUCATIONAL VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; EDUTAINMENT; INTERACTION DEVICES; MULTI-MODAL INTERFACES; MULTI-USER; MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; MULTIUSER ENVIRONMENTS; NATURAL INTERFACES; NEW FORMS; PILOT SIMULATION; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VR APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT; EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 70849093938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCI.2009.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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