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Exergames, Active Games and Gamification of Physical Activity (242) JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2555) Games and Gamification for Health (779) Extended Reality, Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds (764) Serious Games for Health and Medicine (803) Dementia and Cognitive Decline (699) Aging in Place (389) Formative Evaluation of Digital Health Interventions (3250) Physical Activity for Older People (283)

Published on in Vol 10, No 1 (2022): Jan-Mar

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/29987, first published .
Immersive Virtual Reality Exergames for Persons Living With Dementia: User-Centered Design Study as a Multistakeholder Team During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Immersive Virtual Reality Exergames for Persons Living With Dementia: User-Centered Design Study as a Multistakeholder Team During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Immersive Virtual Reality Exergames for Persons Living With Dementia: User-Centered Design Study as a Multistakeholder Team During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors of this article:

John Muñoz1 Author Orcid Image ;   Samira Mehrabi2 Author Orcid Image ;   Yirou Li1 Author Orcid Image ;   Aysha Basharat2 Author Orcid Image ;   Laura E Middleton2 Author Orcid Image ;   Shi Cao1 Author Orcid Image ;   Michael Barnett-Cowan2 Author Orcid Image ;   Jennifer Boger1 Author Orcid Image
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