Gamification and serious game approaches for adult literacy tablet software

Entertainment Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 135-146

  Browne, Kevin ^a   Anand, Christopher ^a   Gosse, Elizabeth ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Brant Skills Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adult literacy; Gamification; Literacy; Serious game; Tablet user experience; User experience

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

ADULT LITERACIES; GAMIFICATION; LITERACY; SERIOUS GAMES; USER EXPERIENCE;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 84901233939     PISSN: 18759521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2014.04.003     Document Type: Article

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