Capturing player enjoyment in computer games

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 71, Issue , 2007, Pages 175-201

  Yannakakis, Georgios N ^a   Hallam, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

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EID: 34347398844     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72705-7_8     Document Type: Article

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