Feeling strangely fine: The well-being economy in popular games

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

Volumn 3962 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 60-71

  Barr, Pippin ^a   Khaled, Rilla ^a   Noble, James ^a   Biddle, Robert ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

GAMES CONVEY MESSAGES; MENTAL HEALTH; PERSUASIVE GAMES;

ANIMATION;

EID: 33745834754     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11755494_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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