Implementing accessibility in educational videogames with

1st ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Learning, MTDL 2009, Co-located with the 2009 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 57-66

  Torrente, Javier ^a   Del Blanco, Ángel ^a   Moreno Ger, Pablo ^a   Martínez Ortiz, Iván ^a   Fernández Manjón, Baltasar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

; Accessibility; Distance learning; e learning; Game authoring tools; Game based learning; Online learning; Videogames

Indexed keywords

DESIGN STAGE; DEVELOPMENT COSTS; DISTANCE LEARNING; EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES; EDUCATIONAL GAME; GAME DEVELOPMENT; GAME-BASED LEARNING; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS; MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES; ONLINE LEARNING; VIDEO GAME; WEB-BASED DISTANCE EDUCATION;

CURRICULA; E-LEARNING; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MOTIVATION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 72049096166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1631111.1631122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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