Impacts of forced serious game play on vulnerable subgroups

International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 34-53

  Heeter, Carrie ^a   Lee, Yu Hao ^a   Magerko, Brian ^b   Medler, Ben ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Game analytics; Gender; Individual differences; Non Gamers; Serious games

Indexed keywords

GAME ANALYTICS; GENDER; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; NON-GAMERS; SERIOUS GAMES;

EID: 80054894714     PISSN: 19423888     EISSN: 19423896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jgcms.2011070103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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