A model of playfulness and flow in virtual reality interactions

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 451-462

  Reid, Denise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY; COMPUTER INTERACTIONS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 4744340655     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/1054746041944777     Document Type: Article

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