Playability Heuristics Evaluation (PHE) approach for Malaysian educational games

Proceedings - International Symposium on Information Technology 2008, ITSim

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Omar, Hasiah Mohamed ^a,b   Jaafar, Azizah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UiTM Terengganu ^*  (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENTS; EDUCATIONAL GAMES; GAME INTERFACES; GAME PLAYS; GAME USABILITIES; MALAYSIA; MALAYSIANS; PLAYABILITY; SPECIFIC DOMAINS; USABILITY EVALUATIONS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 57449087259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4632053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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