Serious Games for Language Learning: How Much Game, How Much AI?

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 125, Issue , 2005, Pages 306-313

  Johnson, W Lewis ^a   Vilhjalmsson, Hannes ^a   Marsella, Stacy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAME DESIGN; SCAFFOLDS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

DESIGN TECHNIQUE; GAMES DESIGNERS; LANGUAGE LEARNING; NON-PLAYER CHARACTER; SERIOUS GAMES DESIGNS; SUBJECT MATTERS; TACTICALS; TRAINING SYSTEMS; USER ENGAGEMENT; USER MOTIVATION;

SERIOUS GAMES;

EID: 84983789891     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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