Using serious games to motivate children with cystic fibrosis to engage with mucus clearance physiotherapy

Proceedings - 2012 6th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems, CISIS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 34-39

  Oikonomou, Andreas ^a   Day, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical; Breathing; Controller; Cystic fibrosis; Games; Intervention; Medical; Pressure; Respiratory; Serious; Tube

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL; BREATHING; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GAMES; INTERVENTION; MEDICAL; RESPIRATORY; SERIOUS; TUBE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONTROLLERS; PHYSICAL THERAPY; PRESSURE;

BODY FLUIDS;

EID: 84866627403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CISIS.2012.108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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