Playability: How to identify the player experience in a video game

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

Volumn 5726 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 356-359

  Sánchez, J L González ^a   Zea, N Padilla ^a   Gutierrez F L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Playability; Usability; User experience; Video games

Indexed keywords

PLAYABILITY; PLAYER EXPERIENCE; USABILITY; USER EXPERIENCE; VIDEO GAME; VIDEO GAME DEVELOPMENT; VIDEO GAMES;

EDUCATIONAL MOTION PICTURES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70350605922     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03655-2_39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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