Effects of skill balancing for physical abilities on player performance, experience and self-esteemin exergames

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2201-2210

  Gerling, Kathrin M ^a   Miller, Matthew ^a   Mandryk, Regan L ^a   Birk, Max ^a   Smeddinck, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Balancing; Exergames; Motion based games; Physical abilities; Player experience

Indexed keywords

BALANCING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EXERGAMES; GAME BALANCING; MOTION-BASED GAMES; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; PHYSICAL ABILITIES; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PLAYER EXPERIENCE; SKILL BALANCING;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 84900407382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2556963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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