Co-creating games through intergenerational design workshops

Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS '12

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 368-377

  Rice, Mark ^a   Cheong, Yian Ling ^a   Ng, Jamie ^a   Chua, Puay Hoe ^b   Theng, Yin Leng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

design workshop; elicitation; intergenerational relations; older adults; video games

Indexed keywords

DESIGN WORKSHOPS; ELICITATION; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; OLDER ADULTS; VIDEO GAME;

DESIGN;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84864779536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2317956.2318012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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