Gestures in geology: The roles of spatial skills, expertise, and communicative context

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6222 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 95-111

  Liben, Lynn S ^a   Christensen, Adam E ^a   Kastens, Kim A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

geology; gesture; science education; Spatial cognition; spatial representation

Indexed keywords

2D GRAPHICS; 3D MODELS; AUDIO AND VIDEO; COMMUNICATIVE INTENT; CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; GESTURE; SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY , ENGINEERING , AND MATHEMATICS; SCIENCE EDUCATION; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPATIAL SKILLS; SPATIAL THINKING; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

GEOLOGY; MODELS; STUDENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 77957079612     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14749-4_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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