Age Invaders: Social and physical inter-generational family entertainment

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 243-246

  Khoo, Eng Tat ^a   Lee, Shang Ping ^a   Cheok, Adrian David ^a   Kodagoda, Sameera ^b   Zhou, Yu ^a   Toh, Gin Siong ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Elderly entertainment; Family entertainment; Mixed reality; Physical computing; Social computing

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY ENTERTAINMENT; FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT; MIXED REALITY; PHYSICAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL COMPUTING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84869139705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1125451.1125503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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