The effects of static and adaptive performance feedback in game-based training

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1150-1158

  Serge, Stephen R ^a,b   Priest, Heather A ^c   Durlach, Paula J ^c   Johnson, Cheryl I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b US Army Research Institute   (United States)

^c US Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive feedback; Game based training; Instruction; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; EDUCATION COMPUTING; PERSONNEL TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADAPTIVE FEEDBACK; CONTROL GROUPS; DETAILED FEEDBACKS; GAME-BASED TRAININGS; INSTRUCTION; MENTAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK; SEARCH PROCEDURES;

FEEDBACK;

CONTROL GROUP; HUMAN; LEARNING; SKILL;

EID: 84868503575     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.10.007     Document Type: Article

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