"This game is girly!" Perceived enjoyment and student acceptance of edutainment

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

Volumn 7516 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 89-98

  Giannakos, Michail N ^a   Chorianopoulos, Konstantinos ^b   Jaccheri, Letizia ^a   Chrisochoides, Nikos ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b IONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enjoyment; Experiment; Mathematics; Serious; Storytelling; Video Game

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; EDUTAINMENT; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ENJOYMENT; MIDDLE SCHOOL; MODERATING EFFECT; PERCEIVED ENJOYMENT; SERIOUS; SERIOUS GAMES; STORYTELLING; VIDEO GAME;

E-LEARNING; EXPERIMENTS; HEALTH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SPORTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84871424293     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33466-5_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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