Evaluation of adaptive serious games using playtraces and aggregated play data

7th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2013

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 504-511

  Reuter, Christian ^a   Mehm, Florian ^a   Göbel, Stefan ^a   Steinmetz, Ralf ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Evaluation; Playtrace; Serious games; Testbed

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE SERIOUS GAMES; AGGREGATED INFORMATION; CONTINUOUS OBSERVATION; EVALUATION; PLAYTRACE; SERIOUS GAMES; TESTING AND EVALUATION;

ALGORITHMS; TESTBEDS; TOOLS;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 84893829960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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