Online gaming and web-based communities: Serious games for community development

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 384-391

  Doughty, Mark ^a   O'Coill, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community involvement; Interactive technologies; Online collaboration; Serious games

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY; ON-LINE COLLABORATIONS; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; TRADITIONAL COMPUTERS; WEB-BASED COMMUNITIES;

SERIOUS GAMES;

EID: 78651559440     PISSN: 14778394     EISSN: 17418216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2008.019197     Document Type: Article

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