Practical, appropriate, empirically-validated guidelines for designing educational games

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1979-1988

  Linehan, Conor ^a   Ben, Kirman ^a   Lawson, Shaun ^a   Chan, Gail G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Applied behaviour analysis; Behavioural psychology; Education; Educational games; Games design; Psychology; Serious games

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GAME DESIGN; TEACHING;

APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSE; BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS; BEHAVIOURAL PSYCHOLOGIES; EDUCATION DESIGNS; EDUCATIONAL GAME; EDUCATIONAL TOOLS; GAME DESIGN; PRACTICAL GUIDELINES; PSYCHOLOGY; TEACHING METHODS;

SERIOUS GAMES;

EID: 79958141924     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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