How do perceptions of virtual worlds lead to enhanced learning? an empirical investigation

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Phang, Chee Wei ^a   Kankanhalli, Atreyi ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Flow; Learning outcome; Social norms; Social presence; Telepresence; Three dimensional realism; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

FLOW; LEARNING OUTCOME; SOCIAL NORM; SOCIAL PRESENCE; TELEPRESENCE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL REALISM; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TECHNOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84870965985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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