Towards integration of computer games in interactive health education environments: Understanding gameplay challenge, narrative and spectacle

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 941-945

  Timpka, Toomas ^a   Graspemo, Gabriella ^a   Hassling, Linda ^a   Nordfeldt, Sam ^a   Eriksson, Henrik ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Computer games; Educational technologies; Health education; Qualitative studies; System requirements

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; HEALTH; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GAME DESIGN;

GAMEPLAYING EXPERIENCES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH INTERVENTIONS; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS; TECHNICAL FEATURES; BEHAVIORAL HEALTH; GAME DESIGN; GAMEPLAY; HEALTH STATUS; TOWARD INTEGRATION; WESTERN COUNTRIES;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 67650235681     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-941     Document Type: Article

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