Playability heuristics for mobile multi-player games

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 274, Issue , 2007, Pages 28-35

  Korhonen, Hannu ^a   Koivisto, Elina M I ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heuristic evaluation; Mobile; Multi player games; Playability

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL GAMES; GAME DESIGN; HEURISTIC EVALUATION; HEURISTIC MODEL; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; PLAYABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

EID: 77953851514     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1306813.1306844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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