Older Adults' Engagement With a Video Game Training Program

Activities, Adaptation and Aging

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 269-279

  Belchior, Patrícia ^a   Marsiske, Michael ^b   Sisco, Shannon ^b   Yam, Anna ^b   Mann, William ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; engagement; flow; older adults; videogames

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874817390     PISSN: 01924788     EISSN: 15444368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01924788.2012.702307     Document Type: Article

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