Movement-based sports video games: Investigating motivation and gaming experience

Entertainment Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 49-61

  Pasch, Marco ^a,c   Bianchi Berthouze, Nadia ^b   van Dijk, Betsy ^c   Nijholt, Anton ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body movement patterns; Emotion; Exertion; Gaming experience; Immersion; Movement based interaction; Physical activity; Whole body sports games

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL MOTION PICTURES; MOTIVATION; USER INTERFACES;

ANALYSIS OF DATA; BODY MOVEMENTS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FUTURE GENERATIONS; GAME DESIGNERS; GROUNDED THEORY; MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM; MOVEMENT CONTROL; MOVEMENT PATTERN; MOVEMENT-BASED; NINTENDO WII; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SPORTS VIDEO; VIDEO GAME CONSOLES; WHOLE-BODY;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70649115897     PISSN: 18759521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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