PlayMancer: A European Serious Gaming 3D Environment
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Serious games are about to enter the medical sector to give people with behavioural or addictive disorders the ability to use them as part of health promotion and disease prevention. The PlayMancer framework will support physical rehabilitations and psycho-education programs thru a modular multiplayer networked 3D game based on the Universally Accessible Games (UA games) guidelines. KALAPANIDAS, Elías, et al. PlayMancer: A European Serious Gaming 3D Environment. In: Konstantas, D. & Shishkov, B. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on e-Health Services and Technologies EHST 2008. Porto : INSTICC Press, 2008. p. 51-59
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