Affect and engagement in game-based learning environments

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-56

  Sabourin, Jennifer L ^a   Lester, James C ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Games and infotainment; Human factors

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOTIVATION; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; GAME-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; IMPROVING LEARNING; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; INFOTAINMENT; POSITIVE AFFECTS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; STUDENT ENGAGEMENT;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 84903575527     PISSN: 19493045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-AFFC.2013.27     Document Type: Article

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