Semiotic inspection method in the context of educational simulation games

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1207-1212

  Peixoto, Daniela C C ^a   Prates, Raquel O ^a   Resende, Rodolfo F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

communicability; game; semiotic inspection method; simulation

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT; EDUCATIONAL SIMULATION GAMES; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; GAME; INSPECTION METHODS; MANAGEMENT PLANNING; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SEMIOTIC ENGINEERING; SIMULATION GAMES; SIMULATION TOOL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SIMULATION; SOFTWARE PROCESS; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; SOFTWARE PROCESS SIMULATION;

INSPECTION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PLANNING; SEMIOTICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77954701078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1774088.1774342     Document Type: Conference Paper

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