Dissecting play - Investigating the cognitive and emotional motivations and affects of computer gameplay

Proceedings of CGAMES 2008 - 13th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational and Serious Games

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 9-16

  Lindley, Craig A ^a   Nacke, Lennart ^a   Sennersten, Charlotte C ^a  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MOTIVATION;

COGNITIVE APPROACHES; COGNITIVE DECISION PROCESS; COGNITIVE LEARNING; DESIGN FEATURES; EMPIRICAL METHOD; LEARNING FUNCTIONS; PLAUSIBLE MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMATION;

EID: 84906969375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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