Dementia games: A literature review of dementia-related serious games

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8101 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 15-27

  McCallum, Simon ^a   Boletsis, Costas ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; dementia; literature review; mild cognitive impairment; serious games

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; DEMENTIA; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS; SERIOUS GAMES;

HEALTH; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84885211858     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40790-1_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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