Making the Wii at home: Game play by older people in sheltered housing

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6389 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 156-176

  Harley, Dave ^a   Fitzpatrick, Geraldine ^b   Axelrod, Lesley ^c   White, Gareth ^c   McAllister, Graham ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

appropriation; digital hearth; elderly; older people; video games; Wii

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATION; DIGITAL HEARTH; ELDERLY; OLDER PEOPLE; VIDEO GAME; WII;

HOUSING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 78649945309     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16607-5_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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