A structured expert evaluation method for the evaluation of children's computer games

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3585 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 457-469

  Baauw, Ester ^a   Bekker, Mathilde M ^a   Barendregt, Wolmet ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER GAMES; MALONE'S CONCEPTS; THEORY-OF-ACTION MODEL;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646015377     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11555261_38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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