Not doing but thinking: The role of challenge in the gaming experience

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 79-88

  Cox, Anna L ^a   Cairns, Paul ^b   Shah, Pari ^a   Carroll, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Challenge; Games; Immersion

Indexed keywords

CHALLENGE; GAMES; GAMING EXPERIENCES; IMMERSION; PHYSICAL DEMAND; TIME PRESSURES; VIDEO GAME;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84862069816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2207689     Document Type: Conference Paper

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