Is the Nintendo Wii Fit really acceptable to older people?: A discrete choice experiment

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Laver, Kate ^a   Ratcliffe, Julie ^a   George, Stacey ^a   Burgess, Leonie ^b   Crotty, Maria ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECREATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 80054691611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-11-64     Document Type: Article

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