Gamers against all odds

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

Volumn 5670 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-12

  Alklind Taylor, Anna Sofia ^a   Backlund, Per ^a   Engström, Henrik ^a   Johannesson, Mikael ^a   Lebram, Mikael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Games as motivation; Games for elderly; Serious games; Virtual stroke rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; COMPUTER GAME; GAME CONSOLES; GAMES AS MOTIVATION; GAMES FOR ELDERLY; HOME ENVIRONMENT; MOTOR REHABILITATION; PRIOR EXPERIENCE; PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE; SERIOUS GAMES; STROKE PATIENTS; VIRTUAL STROKE REHABILITATION;

E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; MOTIVATION; MOTORS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 69949165443     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03364-3_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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