Game design strategies for collectivist persuasion

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games, Sandbox '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 31-38

  Khaled, Rilla ^a   Barrt, Pippin ^a   Biddle, Robert ^a   Fischer, Ronald ^b   Noble, James ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Culture; Game design; Persuasion; Serious games

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SMOKE;

FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES; GAME DESIGN; PERSUASION; PERSUASIVE TECHNOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION; TEAM PERFORMANCE;

SERIOUS GAMES;

EID: 70450277089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1581073.1581078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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