SMILE: An immersive learning game for deaf and hearing children

ACM SIGGRAPH 2007: Educators Program

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Adamo Villani, Nicoletta ^a   Wright, Kelly ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D animation; Sign language education; Virtual learning environments; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

3-D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; 3D ANIMATION; COMPUTER GAME; EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH; GOAL-ORIENTED; IMMERSIVE; IMMERSIVE LEARNING; KEY ELEMENTS; LEARNING ACTIVITY; SIGN LANGUAGE; USER STUDY; VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS;

ANIMATION; AUDITION; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 78651456709     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1282040.1282058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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