Developing serious games specifically adapted to people suffering from Alzheimer

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7528 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 243-254

  Bouchard, Bruno ^a   Imbeault, Frédérick ^a   Bouzouane, Abdenour ^a   Menelas, Bob Antoine J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Alzheimer disease; Cognitive training; personalization; Serious games

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITIVE TRAINING; PERSONALIZATIONS; SERIOUS GAMES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

EID: 84867623979     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33687-4_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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