Scoop!: Using movement to reduce math anxiety and affect confidence

Foundations of Digital Games 2012, FDG 2012 - Conference Program

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 228-230

  Isbister, Katherine ^a   Karlesky, Michael ^a   Frye, Jonathan ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective computing; Games for learning; Movement based games; Whole body interaction

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE COMPUTING; GAME EXPERIENCE; GAMES FOR LEARNING; MOVEMENT-BASED; WHOLE BODY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84863963939     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2282338.2282382     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

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7. Isbister, Schwekendiek, Frye. (2011). Wriggle: An Exploration of Social and Emotional Effects of Movement. Work in Progress presented at CHI 2011.
8. Isbister, Rao, Schwekendiek, Hayward, Lidasan. (2011). Is More Movement Better? A Controlled Comparison of Movement-based Games. Poster presented at Foundations of Digital Gaming 2011, Bordeaux, France.