Educational tool or expensive toy? Evaluating vr evaluation and its relevance for virtual heritage

New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 242-260

  Economou, Maria ^a   Tost, Laia Pujol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

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EID: 84917330976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203937884     Document Type: Chapter

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