The impact of Nintendo Wii to physical education students' balance compared to the traditional approaches

Computers and Education

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 196-205

  Vernadakis, Nikolaos ^a   Gioftsidou, Asimenia ^a   Antoniou, Panagiotis ^a   Ioannidis, Dionysis ^a   Giannousi, Maria ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Balance; Biodex stability system; Exergames; Nintendo Wii; Physical activity; Tertiary education; Video games

Indexed keywords

EXERGAMES; NINTENDO WII; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; STABILITY SYSTEMS; TERTIARY EDUCATION; VIDEO GAME;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PRECISION BALANCES; SYSTEM STABILITY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84857477168     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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