Firefighter command training virtual environment

Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Diversity in Computing, TAPIA '03

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 30-33

  St Julien, Tazama U ^a   Shaw, Chris D ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Simulation; Training; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ATLANTA; EXTENSIBLE FRAMEWORK; FIRE DEPARTMENT; GEORGIA; SIMULATION; SIMULATION TRAINING; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

ANIMATION; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; FIRES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77952949016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/948542.948549     Document Type: Conference Paper

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