Player performance, satisfaction, and video game enjoyment

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

Volumn 5709 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-12

  Klimmt, Christoph ^a   Blake, Christopher ^b   Hefner, Dorothée ^b   Vorderer, Peter ^c   Roth, Christian ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Hanover University of Music and Drama   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attribution theory; Enjoyment; Entertainment; Flow; Performance; Video games

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTION THEORY; ENJOYMENT; ENTERTAINMENT; FLOW; PERFORMANCE; VIDEO GAMES; VIDEO GAME;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATIONAL MOTION PICTURES; COMPUTATION THEORY; GAME THEORY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

GAME THEORY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70350583296     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04052-8_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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