Weekend battle: An entertainment system for improving workers' motivation

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 265, Issue , 2005, Pages 43-50

  Kuramoto, Itaru ^a   Kashiwagi, Kazumasa ^a   Uemura, Tomomi ^a   Shibuya, Yu ^a   Tsujino, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

avatar; competition; entertainment; motivation; rearing; weekend game system

Indexed keywords

AVATAR; ENTERTAINMENT; ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS; GAME SYSTEM; INFORMAL COMMUNICATION; WORKING ENVIRONMENT;

COMPETITION; PRODUCTIVITY;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 77953496610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1178477.1178483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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