Using virtual environments to tell the story: "The battle of Thermopylae"

Proceedings - 2011 3rd International Conferenceon Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-Games 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 84-91

  Christopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Mavridis, Pavlos ^a   Andreadis, Anthousis ^a   Karigiannis, John N ^a  

^a Foundation of the Hellenic World   (Greece)

Author keywords

Educational virtual environments; Interactive storytelling; Thermopylae battle simulation; Video games; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES; EDUCATIONAL TOOLS; EDUCATIONAL VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; EFFECTIVE LEARNING; ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING; LEARNING PROCESS; THE MUSEUMS; THERMOPYLAE BATTLE SIMULATION; VIDEO GAME; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY;

EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); USER INTERFACES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 80052132335     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2011.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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