Full-body motion-based game interaction for older adults

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1873-1882

  Gerling, Kathrin M ^a   Livingston, Ian J ^b   Nacke, Lennart E ^c   Mandryk, Regan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design; Entertainment; Games; Older adults

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY LEVELS; AGE-RELATED; AGE-RELATED CHANGES; ENTERTAINMENT; FULL BODY; FULL-BODY INTERACTION; FULL-BODY MOTION CONTROL; GAME DESIGN; GAMES; LIFE EXPECTANCIES; NURSING HOMES; OLDER ADULTS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

DESIGN; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84862101296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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