Empowering students to create better virtual reality applications: A longitudinal study of a VR capstone course

Informatics in Education

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 287-317

  Takala, Tuukka M ^a   Malmi, Lauri ^a   Pugliese, Roberto ^a   Takala, Tapio ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

3D user interface; Computer science education; Project course; Software toolkit; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85003454648     PISSN: 16485831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2016.15     Document Type: Article

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