Usability heuristics for networked multiplayer games

GROUP'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 169-178

  Pinelle, David ^a   Wong, Nelson ^b   Stach, Tadeusz ^c   Gutwin, Carl ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Game usability; Heuristic evaluation; Multiplayer games; Networked game heuristics; Networked games; NGH; Usability

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC EVALUATION; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; NETWORKED GAMES; PC GAMES; REAL PROBLEMS; SESSION MANAGEMENT; USABILITY PROBLEMS; USABILITY TESTS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 77950484847     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1531674.1531700     Document Type: Conference Paper

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