Personalised learning for casual games: The 'language trap' online language learning game

4th European Conference on Games Based Learning 2010, ECGBL 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 306-315

  Peirce, Neil ^a   Wade, Vincent ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adaptive learning; Casual game; Personalisation; User modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ADAPTIVE LEARNING; CASUAL GAMES; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK; PERSONALISATION; PERSONALISED LEARNING; TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING; USER MODELLING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84888098972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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