Persuasive design of a mobile energy conservation game with direct feedback and social cues

Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory - Proceedings of DiGRA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bang, Magnus ^a   Svahn, Mattias ^b   Gustafsson, Anton ^c  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^c INTERACTIVE INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Advergame; Electricity Consumption; Motivation; Persuasion; Persuasive games; Pervasive games; Serious Game

Indexed keywords

ADVERGAME; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; PERSUASION; PERSUASIVE GAMES; PERVASIVE GAME; SERIOUS GAMES;

FEEDBACK; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MOTIVATION;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 84873377612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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