User experience observations on factors that affect performance in a road-crossing training application for children using the CAVE

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8524 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2014, Pages 91-101

  Tzanavari, Aimilia ^a,b   Matsentidou, Skevi ^b   Christou, Chris G ^a,b   Poullis, Charalambos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA   (Cyprus)

^b CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

CAVE; Children; Road Crossing; Training; User Experience

Indexed keywords

CAVES; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; NOISE POLLUTION; ROADS AND STREETS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CHILDREN; LEARNING TOOL; ROAD CROSSING; TRAFFIC LIGHT; TRAFFIC NOISE; TRAINING APPLICATIONS; USER EXPERIENCE;

PERSONNEL TRAINING;

EID: 84903705886     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07485-6_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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