Improving adolescent fitness attitudes with a mobile fitness game to combat obesity in youth

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's International Games Innovations Conference, IGIC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 148-151

  Lu, Fletcher ^a   Turner, Kei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILE DEVICES; NUTRITION; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES;

GAME PLAYS; GAME PROTOTYPES; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKINGS; SUPPORT MECHANISM;

HEALTH;

EID: 84893555376     PISSN: 21666741     EISSN: 2166675X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGIC.2013.6659162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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