Development of a collaborative virtual environment for educational applications

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, Web3D '01

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 61-68

  Kirner, Tereza G ^a,b   Kirner, Claudio ^a,b   Kawamoto, André L S ^a   Cantão, Jefferson ^a   Pinto, Aloísio ^a   Wazlawick, Raul S ^c  

^a Foundation Euripides of Marilia   (Brazil)

^b CPSC/NuPAC   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Collaborative work; Distributed systems; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; COLLABORATIVE WORK; CONSTRUCTIONISM; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS; IMPLEMENTATION ASPECTS; MULTIUSER SYSTEM; SYSTEM SUPPORTS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77950558344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/363361.363378     Document Type: Conference Paper

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