WiiLab: Bringing together the nintendo wiimote and MATLAB

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Brindza, Jordan ^a   Szweda, Jessica ^a,b   Liao, Qi ^a,c   Jiang, Yingxin ^a   Striegel, Aaron ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CENTRE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineering education; MATLAB; Nintendo Wii; Programming

Indexed keywords

FRESHMEN ENGINEERING; LABORATORY MODULE; LEARNING BY PLAYING; MOTION CAPTURE; NINTENDO; NINTENDO WII;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); CURRICULA; ENGINEERING; MATLAB; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77951432016     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2009.5350509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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