Designing serious games for children and adolescents: What developmental psychology can teach us

Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 167-178

  Subrahmanyam, Kaveri ^a   Greenfield, Patricia ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84871150117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203891650     Document Type: Chapter

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