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Exergames, Active Games and Gamification of Physical Activity (241) Games and Gamification for Health (777) Serious Games for Health and Medicine (802) Game Design and Efficacy of Game Elements (95) Usability of Games and Gamification (95) User Needs Assessment for Games (23) Quality of Games (19) Instruments and Questionnaires for Physical Activity and Lifestyle (114)

Published on in Vol 9, No 2 (2021): Apr-Jun

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/25771, first published .
User Experience With Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment Methods for an Affective Exergame: Comparative Laboratory-Based Study

User Experience With Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment Methods for an Affective Exergame: Comparative Laboratory-Based Study

User Experience With Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment Methods for an Affective Exergame: Comparative Laboratory-Based Study

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Ali Darzi1 Author Orcid Image ;   Sean M McCrea2 Author Orcid Image ;   Domen Novak1 Author Orcid Image
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