Console gaming across generations: Exploring intergenerational interactions in collocated console gaming

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Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-56

  Voida, Amy ^a   Greenberg, Saul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Console games; Intergenerational gaming; Playstation; Video games; Wii

Indexed keywords

CONSOLE GAMES; INTERGENERATIONAL GAMING; PLAYSTATION; VIDEO GAME; WII;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84857685304     PISSN: 16155289     EISSN: 16155297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-011-0232-1     Document Type: Article

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