Serious games for health

Entertainment Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 231-247

  Wattanasoontorn, Voravika ^a,b   Boada, Imma ^a   García, Rubén ^a   Sbert, Mateu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Healthcare; Interactive learning; Medical information system; Serious games

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

3D GAMES; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; GAME ENGINE; INTERACTIVE LEARNING; SERIOUS GAMES; SERIOUS GAMES FOR HEALTHS; SPECIALIZED TRAINING;

HEALTH;

EID: 84887574617     PISSN: 18759521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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