Designing and evaluating digital games for frail elderly persons

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gerling, Kathrin M ^a   Schulte, Frank P ^b   Masuch, Maic ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Evaluation; Frail elderly; Game design; Game usability; Interface design; Player experience; Silver gaming

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; EVALUATION; FRAIL ELDERLY; GAME DESIGN; GAME USABILITY; INTERFACE DESIGN; PLAYER EXPERIENCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84855398936     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2071423.2071501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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