Physical activity motivating games: You can play, mate!

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group - Design: Open 24/7, OZCHI '09

Volumn 411, Issue , 2009, Pages 273-276

  Berkovsky, Shlomo ^a   Freyne, Jill ^a   Coombe, Mac ^a   Bhandari, Dipak ^a   Baghaei, Nilufar ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioural change; Game design; Motivation; Physical activity; Serious games; User study

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES; GAME DESIGN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SERIOUS GAMES; USER STUDY;

DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77952993027     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1738826.1738872     Document Type: Conference Paper

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