Placing a value on aesthetics in online casual games

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1275-1278

  Andersen, Erik ^a   Liu, Yun En ^a   Snider, Richard ^a   Szeto, Roy ^a   Popović, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

A B testing; Aesthetics; Analytics; Games

Indexed keywords

GAME DESIGN; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

A/B TESTING; ANALYTIC; CASUAL GAMES; ESTHETIC; FLASH GAME; GAME; GAMES DESIGNERS; LARGE-SCALES; SOUND EFFECTS; TIME PROGRESS;

ANIMATION;

EID: 79958085960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979131     Document Type: Conference Paper

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