Designing game research: Addressing questions of validity

Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 404-410

  Ravaja, Niklas ^a   Kivikangas, Matias ^a  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

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EID: 84897776225     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203891650     Document Type: Chapter

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