A new framework of usability evaluation for massively multi-player online game: Case study of "world of warcraft" game

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4553 LNCS, Issue PART 4, 2007, Pages 341-350

  Song, Seungkeun ^a,b   Lee, Joohyeon ^b   Hwang, Insun ^a  

^a Game Rating Board   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Design process; Framework; Game design; MMORPG; Usability

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MARKETING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

DESIGN PROCESS; GAME DESIGNS; USABILITY EVALUATION;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 38149066852     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73111-5_39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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