Scaling the level of difficulty in single player video games

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

Volumn 5709 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 24-35

  Aponte, Maria Virginia ^a   Levieux, Guillaume ^a   Natkin, Stéphane ^a  

^a University of Paris Cité   (France)

Author keywords

Challenge; Difficulty; Evaluation; Learning; Video games

Indexed keywords

CHALLENGE; DIFFICULTY; EVALUATION; LEARNING; VIDEO GAMES; VIDEO GAME;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EDUCATIONAL MOTION PICTURES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70350585207     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04052-8_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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