Tabletop prototyping of serious games for 'soft skills' training

Proceedings of the 2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 182-185

  Linehan, Conor ^a   Lawson, Shaun ^a   Doughty, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative games; Education and learning; Game design; Serious games methodologies; Soft skills

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING; COLLABORATIVE GAMES; GAME DESIGN; LOW COSTS; PROTOTYPING; SERIOUS GAMES; SERIOUS GAMES METHODOLOGIES; SOFT SKILLS;

EDUCATION;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70350068079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2009.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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