FearNot! An anti-bullying intervention: Evaluation of an interactive virtual learning environment

AISB'07: Artificial and Ambient Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 446-452

  Watson, Scott ^a   Vannini, Natalie ^b   Davis, Megan ^a   Woods, Sarah ^a   Hall, Marc ^c   Hall, Lynne ^c   Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMOTIONAL REACTIONS; FOCUS GROUPS; PRIMARY SCHOOLS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; VIRTUAL CHARACTER; VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84860547132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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