The playability evaluation of virtual baby feeding application

2nd International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 95-100

  Petrasova, A ^a   Czanner, S ^a   Chalmers, A ^a   Farrer, J V ^a   Wolke, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infant feeding difficulties; Serious games; User studies; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

IMPROVE-A; PLAYABILITY; SERIOUS GAMES; USER STUDIES; USER STUDY;

HEALTH CARE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FEEDING;

EID: 77952987778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2010.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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