The psychology serious game prototype for preschool children

2011 IEEE 1st International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SeGAH 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Szczesna, Agnieszka ^a   Grudzinski, Jakub ^a   Grudzinski, Tomasz ^a   Mikuszewski, Robert ^a   Debowski, Adrian ^a  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

serious games in psychology; therapeutic goals

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAME; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; SERIOUS GAMES; SERIOUS GAMES IN PSYCHOLOGY; THERAPEUTIC GOALS;

HEALTH;

EID: 84859063068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SeGAH.2011.6165435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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