Measuring user experience in digital gaming: Theoretical and methodological issues

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6494, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Takatalo, Jari ^a   Häkkinen, Jukka ^b   Kaistinen, Jyrki ^a   Nyman, Göte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Display; Games; Measurement; Theory; User experience

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DIGITAL GAMING; MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORKS; USER EXPERIENCE; VIEWING SITUATIONS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 34249011197     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.698486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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