VR-ENGAGE: A Virtual Reality Educational Game that Incorporates Intelligence
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چکیده
Computer games have become part of children’s culture. Children and adolescents are quite happy to spend many hours playing a game just for the fun of it. On the other hand educational syllabus may look quite dry to children and adolescents. In this paper, we describe VR-ENGAGE, a virtual reality game that has been constructed for teaching geography to students in a motivating way. Thus the captivating effects of electronic games may come into service to the purposes of education. The game is enriched with student modeling mechanisms that ensure the individualization of the interaction. The game has been evaluated and the results were very encouraging.
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