Critical review on video game evaluation heuristics: Social games perspective

Future Play 2010: Research, Play, Share - International Academic Conference on the Future of Game Design and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 56-65

  Paavilainen, Janne ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Heuristics; Playability; Social games; Usability; Video games

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; HEURISTICS; PLAYABILITY; SOCIAL GAMES; USABILITY; VIDEO GAMES;

DESIGN; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 79951529741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1920778.1920787     Document Type: Conference Paper

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