3D environments as social learning tools: The VIRTU@LIS experience

ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Educators Program, SIGGRAPH '05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  De Sousa Pedrosa, Tiago ^a   Pereira, Âgela Guimarães ^a   Cardoso, Nuno ^b   Costa, Manuel ^b   Carita, Tiago ^b   Nobre, Edmundo ^b   Pedrosa, Pedro ^b   Capeta, Nuno ^b   Estêvão, Sérgio ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b YDREAMS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

3D; climate change; convivial social learning tools; fisheries; game; ICT

Indexed keywords

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; CONVIVIAL SOCIAL LEARNING TOOLS; EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT; NEW FORMS; NEW MECHANISMS; SCIENTIFIC ISSUES; SELF REFLECTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; SUSTAINABLE FISHERY;

FISHERIES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MACHINE DESIGN; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 77954061553     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1187358.1187360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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