Improving academic-industry collaboration for game research and education

FDG 2009 - 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 191-198

  Swain, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic industry collaboration; Game design; Game education; Game innovation; Game research; Software management

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION GAME; GAME DESIGN; GAME EDUCATION; GAME RESEARCH; INDUSTRY COLLABORATION; SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INDUSTRY; RESEARCH; STUDENTS;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 77953597658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1536513.1536550     Document Type: Conference Paper

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