Visual complexity, player experience, performance and physical exertion in motion-based games for older adults

Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Smeddinck, Jan ^a   Gerling, Kathrin M ^b   Tiemkeo, Saranat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Design; Entertainment; Motion based games; Older adults; Serious games; Visual complexity

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ENTERTAINMENT; MOTION-BASED GAMES; OLDER ADULTS; SERIOUS GAMES; VISUAL COMPLEXITY;

DESIGN;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84887499262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2513383.2517029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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