Increased enjoyment using a tablet-based serious game with regularly changing visual elements: A pilot study

Gerontechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 32-44

  Nagle, Aniket ^a   Novak, Domen ^b   Wolf, Peter ^a   Riener, Robert ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptance of tablets; Combining visual element change with DDA; DDA; Enjoyment

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MECHANICS; PILOT STUDY; TABLET; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84955130770     PISSN: 15691101     EISSN: 1569111X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4017/gt.2015.14.1.001.00     Document Type: Article

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