Serious games for emergency preparedness: Evaluation of an interactive vs. a non-interactive simulation of a terror attack

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 508-519

  Chittaro, Luca ^a   Sioni, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emergency preparedness; Evaluation; Interactivity; Protection Motivation Theory; Serious games; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CIVIL DEFENSE; RISK PERCEPTION;

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS; EVALUATION; INTERACTIVITY; PROTECTION MOTIVATION THEORY; SERIOUS GAMES; SIMULATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84928879824     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.074     Document Type: Article

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