Automatic guidance tools for enhancing the educative experience in non-immersive virtual worlds: Preliminary results from project V-LeaF

2010 IEEE Education Engineering Conference, EDUCON 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1131-1135

  Rico, Mariano ^a   Camacho, David ^a   Pulido, Estrella ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Education; Opensim; Recommender systems; Virtual reality; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC GUIDANCE; COLLABORATIVE TASKS; EDUCATIONAL PLATFORMS; EYE-GAZE; HIGH COSTS; HIGH SCHOOL; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; IMMERSIVE; MONITORIZATION; OPENSIM; PROGRAMMING SKILLS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE TOOL; TEACHING/LEARNING; TECHNOLOGICAL STRENGTH; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77954898630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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