Little big difference: Gender aspects and gender-based adaptation in educational games

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

Volumn 5670 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 150-161

  Steiner, Christina M ^a   Kickmeier Rust, Michael D ^a   Albert, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Educational game; Game design; Game based learning; Gender difference

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EDUCATIONAL GAME; GAME DESIGN; GAME-BASED LEARNING; GENDER DIFFERENCE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DESIGN; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 69949169273     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03364-3_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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