Narrative in Exergames: Thoughts on Procedure, Mechanism, and Others

Games for Health Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 19-24

  Lu, Amy Shirong ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTERFACE; EXERCISE; FITNESS; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOFTWARE DESIGN; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VIDEO GAME;

EXERCISE; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; NARRATION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84992755509     PISSN: 2161783X     EISSN: 21617856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/g4h.2014.0090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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