Exploring factors that make online interactive games successful: A heuristic approach

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

Volumn 5068 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 362-371

  Theng, Yin Leng ^a   Ho, Agnes Kit Ying ^a   Wee, Esther Shir Wei ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW INTERACTIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ASIA-PACIFIC; GAME DESIGNS; HEURISTIC APPROACHES; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; INTERACTIVE GAMES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 48949093975     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70585-7_41     Document Type: Conference Paper

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