User centered game design: Evaluating massive multiplayer online role playing games for Second Language Acquisition

Proceedings of Sandbox 2008: An ACM SIGGRAPH Videogame Symposium, Sandbox'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 43-50

  Rankin, Yolanda A ^a   McNeal, McKenzie ^b   Shute, Marcus W ^c   Gooch, Bruce ^d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Game design; Interaction design; Second Language Acquisition; Serious games; User centered design

Indexed keywords

GAME DESIGN; INTERACTION DESIGN; SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; SERIOUS GAMES; USER CENTERED DESIGN;

DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; LINGUISTICS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70249104657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1401843.1401851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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