Supporting seniors rehabilitation through videogame technology: A distributed approach

2012 2nd International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering: Realizing User Engagement with Game Engineering Techniques, GAS 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 16-22

  Maggiorini, Dario ^a   Ripamonti, Laura Anna ^a   Zanon, Eraldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ambient Intelligence (AmI); context awareness; distributed architecture; healthcare; software engineering; videogames

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; DISTRIBUTED APPROACHES; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; LEARNING CURVES; LONG TERM CARE; OFF-THE-SHELF TECHNOLOGIES; REHABILITATION ACTIVITIES; SERIOUS GAMES; TUNABLE PARAMETER; USER FRIENDLY INTERFACE; VIDEO GAME;

HEALTH CARE; PATIENT TREATMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

EID: 84864335355     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GAS.2012.6225920     Document Type: Conference Paper

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