Usability evaluation for history educational games

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 403, Issue , 2009, Pages 1019-1025

  Yue, Wong Seng ^a   Mat Zin, Nor Azan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Digital educational game; History educational game design; Usability

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL GAMES; EDUCATIONAL GAME; GAME DESIGN; GAME INTERFACES; IMMERSIVE LEARNING; LEARNING GOALS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; OVERALL QUALITY; PLAYABILITY; USABILITY; USABILITY EVALUATION; USABILITY EVALUATION METHODS; USABILITY PROBLEMS;

DESIGN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 74949135876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1655925.1656110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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