Wii all play: The console game as a computational meeting place

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1559-1568

  Voida, Amy ^a   Greenberg, Saul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational meeting place; Console games; Digital hearth; Gamecube. video games; Playstation; Ps2; Ps3; Wii; Xbox360

Indexed keywords

CONSOLE GAMES; DIGITAL HEARTH; MEETING PLACES; PLAYSTATION; PS2; PS3; VIDEO GAME; WII; XBOX360;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84884143562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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