Pervasive game flow: Understanding player enjoyment in pervasive gaming

Computers in Entertainment

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Jegers, Kalle ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Enjoyment; Evaluation; Flow; Gameplay; Pervasive gaming

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER INTERFACES;

GAME DESIGN; GAMEFLOW MODELS; PERVASIVE GAMING;

ANIMATION;

EID: 34147224241     PISSN: 15443574     EISSN: 15443981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1236224.1236238     Document Type: Article

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