Life skills developed by those who have played in video game tournaments

Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages 206-220

  Thirunarayanan, M O ^a   Vilchez, Manuel ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning skills by playing video games; Survey of video game players; Video games; Video games in education

Indexed keywords

IF THERE ARE; LIFE SKILLS; PUBLIC RESEARCH; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; VIDEO GAME; WORK-RELATED;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SURVEYS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84876472265     PISSN: 15551229     EISSN: 15551237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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