Game-play breakdowns and breakthroughs: Exploring the relationship between action, understanding, and involvement

Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 202-231

  Iacovides, Ioanna ^a   Cox, Anna L ^a   McAndrew, Patrick ^b   Aczel, James ^b   Scanlon, Eileen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

USER INTERFACES;

DATA SET; DIARY ENTRIES; EDUCATIONAL GAME; GAME PLAYS; INTEGRAL PART; MICRO AND MACRO; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84929618635     PISSN: 07370024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07370024.2014.987347     Document Type: Article

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