Design and evaluation of a serious game for immersive cultural training

2010 16th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, VSMM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 253-260

  Froschauer, Josef ^a   Seidel, Ingo ^a   Gärtner, Markus ^a   Berger, Helmut ^a   Merkl, Dieter ^b  

^a Matrixware Information Services GmbH   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; 3D VIRTUAL WORLDS; CULTURAL TRAINING; GAME DESIGN; IMMERSIVE; LEARNING EFFECTS; SERIOUS GAMES; TEST RESULTS; USER STUDY; VISUAL CONTEXT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DESIGN;

EID: 78651458103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VSMM.2010.5665978     Document Type: Conference Paper

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