Promoting Daily Physical Activity by Means of Mobile Gaming: A Review of the State of the Art

Games for Health Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 460-469

  Tabak, Monique ^a,b   Dekker Van Weering, Marit ^b   Van Dijk, Hylke ^c   Vollenbroek Hutten, Miriam ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b ROESSINGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Netherlands)

^c NHL STENDEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXERCISE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOTIVATION; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGY; VIDEO GAME;

EXERCISE; GOALS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOTIVATION; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84993995812     PISSN: 2161783X     EISSN: 21617856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/g4h.2015.0010     Document Type: Review

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