Fostering agriculture environmental awareness

2nd International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 37-44

  Prada, Rui ^a   Dias, Daniel ^a   Prendinger, Helmut ^b   Nakasone, Arturo ^b  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS; FRESH WATER; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PILOT STUDIES; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

DEFORESTATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WATER;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 77953017623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2010.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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