A level of interaction framework for exploratory learning with characters in virtual environments

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 321, Issue , 2010, Pages 123-143

  Panzoli, David ^a   Peters, Christopher ^a   Dunwell, Ian ^a   Sanchez, Stéphane ^b   Petridis, Panagiotis ^a   Protopsaltis, Aristidis ^a   Scesa, Vincent ^c   De Freitas, Sara ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Instinct Maker   (France)

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EID: 77957981446     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15690-8_7     Document Type: Article

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