A task annotation model for SandBox Serious Games

CIG2009 - 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 233-240

  Bellotti, Francesco ^a   Berta, Riccardo ^a   De Gloria, Alessandro ^a   Primavera, Ludovica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Learning spaces; Serious games; Task based learning; Technology enhanced education; User modeling

Indexed keywords

LEARNING TECHNOLOGY; SERIOUS GAMES; TASK BASED LEARNING; TASK-BASED; USER MODELING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EDUCATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 71549116088     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2009.5286471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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