AgriVillage: 3D multi-language Internet game for fostering agriculture environmental awareness

Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, MEDES'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 145-152

  Yongyuth, Panita ^a   Prada, Rui ^b   Nakasone, Arturo ^c   Kawtrakul, Asanee ^a   Prendinger, Helmut ^c  

^a KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Environmental awareness; Multilingual internet game; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

DIRECT IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SECURITY; GAME DESIGN; INTERNET GAMES; LANGUAGE BARRIERS; MULTILINGUAL INTERNET GAME; PLAYER EXPERIENCE; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; SHARING KNOWLEDGE; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD SUPPLY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERNET; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 79952410495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1936254.1936280     Document Type: Conference Paper

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