Digital game design for elderly users

Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Future Play, Future Play '07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 17-22

  IJsselsteijn, Wijnand ^a   Nap, Henk Herman ^a   De Kort, Yvonne ^a   Poels, Karolien ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

digital game design; elderly users; review; social and cognitive benefits of games

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED; DIGITAL GAME DESIGN; DIGITAL GAMES; USABILITY REQUIREMENTS;

DESIGN;

EID: 70049091260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1328202.1328206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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