Entertainment-education through digital games

Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects

Volumn 9780203891650, Issue , 2009, Pages 271-292

  Wang, Hua ^a   Singhal, Arvind ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203891650     Document Type: Chapter

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