Game On: Accessible serious games for offenders and those at risk of offending

Journal of Assistive Technologies

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 13-25

  Brown, David ^a   Shopland, Nicholas ^a   Battersby, Steven ^a   Tully, Alex ^a   Richardson, Steven ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Modding; Offenders with disability; Personalisation; Serious games; Work skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992979779     PISSN: 17549450     EISSN: 20428723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17549450200900012     Document Type: Review

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