Game usability heuristics (PLAY) for evaluating and designing better games: The next iteration

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

Volumn 5621 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 557-566

  Desurvire, Heather ^a   Wiberg, Charlotte ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Computer games; Design guidelines; Evaluation; Games; HCI design principles; Heuristics; Play testing; Playability; Usability; User testing; Video games

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAME; DESIGN GUIDELINES; HCI DESIGN PRINCIPLES; PLAY TESTING; PLAYABILITY; USER TESTING; VIDEO GAME;

COMPUTER TESTING; DESIGN; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 76649133415     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02774-1_60     Document Type: Conference Paper

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