A human touch for Internet training: The Virtual Professor

IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON

Volumn 2, Issue , 1999, Pages 938-941

  Prakash, E C ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; STUDENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPLEX TASK; CRITICAL REGION; HUMAN ANIMATION; HUMAN TOUCHES; ONLINE LEARNING; REAL-TIME ANIMATIONS; VIRTUAL CLASSROOM; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 78650569400     PISSN: 21593442     EISSN: 21593450     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TENCON.1999.818574     Document Type: Conference Paper

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