Classifying serious games

Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 10-24

  Ratan, Rabindra ^a   Ritterfeld, Ute ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 80054839163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203891650     Document Type: Chapter

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