Virtual reality and serious games in healthcare

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 337, Issue , 2011, Pages 169-192

  Ma, Minhua ^a   Zheng, Huiru ^b  

^a GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptive games; dynamic simulation; flow experience; games based therapy; motor rehabilitation; serious games in healthcare; video games technology; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952911337     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17824-5_9     Document Type: Article

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