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Games and Gamification for Health (777) Gamification (155) Serious Games for Health and Medicine (802) Digital Health Reporting Standards, Quality and Transparency in e-Research (132) Formative Evaluation and Development of Games (87) Game Design and Efficacy of Game Elements (95) Theoretical Foundations and Frameworks on Games and Gamification (47) Usability of Games and Gamification (95) Digital Health Reviews (1724)

Published on in Vol 23, No 9 (2021): September

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/30390, first published .
Conceptual Ambiguity Surrounding Gamification and Serious Games in Health Care: Literature Review and Development of Game-Based Intervention Reporting Guidelines (GAMING)

Conceptual Ambiguity Surrounding Gamification and Serious Games in Health Care: Literature Review and Development of Game-Based Intervention Reporting Guidelines (GAMING)

Conceptual Ambiguity Surrounding Gamification and Serious Games in Health Care: Literature Review and Development of Game-Based Intervention Reporting Guidelines (GAMING)

Authors of this article:

Simon Warsinsky1 Author Orcid Image ;   Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin1 Author Orcid Image ;   Sascha Rank1 Author Orcid Image ;   Scott Thiebes1 Author Orcid Image ;   Ali Sunyaev1 Author Orcid Image
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