Balancing skills to optimize fun in interactive board games

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

Volumn 5726 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 301-313

  Kraaijenbrink, Eva ^a   Van Gils, Frank ^a   Cheng, Quan ^a   Van Herk, Robert ^a   Van Den Hoven, Elise ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Balancing skills; Board games; Fun experience; Game balance; Interaction design; Social interaction; Tangible interaction

Indexed keywords

BOARD GAMES; FUN EXPERIENCE; GAME BALANCE; INTERACTION DESIGN; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TANGIBLE INTERACTION; GAME BALANCES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTERS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70350594585     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03655-2_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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