'Gamification': Influencing health behaviours with games

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 76-78

  King, Dominic ^a   Greaves, Felix ^a   Exeter, Christopher ^a   Darzi, Ara ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; GAME; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; PLAY; RECREATION; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84877316058     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0141076813480996     Document Type: Editorial

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