A study of raiders with disabilities in World of Warcraft

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 161-167

  Lim, Theodore ^a   Nardi, Bonnie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Disabilities; Game design; Games; MMO; World of Warcraft

Indexed keywords

DISABILITIES; GAME DESIGN; GAMES; MMO; WORLD OF WARCRAFT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84858953601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2159365.2159387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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