Usability and education of games through combined assessment methods

1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Papaloukas, Spyridon ^a   Xenos, Michalis ^a  

^a HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Assessment methods; Computer games; Education; Evaluation; Games; Learning process; Usability; Videogames

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHODS; COMPUTER GAMES; EVALUATION; GAMES; LEARNING PROCESS; USABILITY; VIDEOGAMES;

EDUCATION;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 57549087067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1389586.1389670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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