Successful education for AEC professionals: case study of applying immersive game-like virtual reality interfaces

Visualization in Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Pour Rahimian, Farzad ^a   Arciszewski, Tomasz ^b   Goulding, Jack Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (United States)

Author keywords

da Vinci Principles; Medici effect; Pedagogy; Successful education; Training; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937109351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22137459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2213-7459-2-4     Document Type: Article

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