Effects of different scenarios of game difficulty on player immersion

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 230-239

  Qin, Hua ^a,b   Rau, Pei Luen Patrick ^a   Salvendy, Gavriel ^a,c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE   (China)

^c SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Difficulty of direction changes; Difficulty of rate changes; Player immersion

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

DIFFICULTY OF RATE CHANGES; DIRECTION CHANGE; PLAYER IMMERSION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77549088790     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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