SustainCity - An interactive virtual reality game system

Proceedings of the 2nd Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Education Conference, IEDEC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 18-22

  Tang, Ying ^a   Shetty, Sachin ^b   Jahan, Kauser ^a   Henry, John ^c   Hargrove, Samuel ^b  

^a Rowan University   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Education Information Resource Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Game; Metacognition; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

GAME; GAME SYSTEM; INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL REALITY; METACOGNITION; REAL-LIFE PROBLEMS; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; SUSTAINABLE CITIES;

CURRICULA; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

DESIGN;

EID: 84860732660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEDEC.2012.6186915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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