Digital games for health behavior change: Research, design, and future directions

eHealth Applications: Promising Strategies for Behavior Change

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 110-127

  Lieberman, Debra A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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