How to Model and Augment Player Satisfaction: A Review

1st Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Yannakakis, Georgios N ^a  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS; PLAYER SATISFACTIONS; REAL- TIME;

EID: 77953733100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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