Serious games usability testing: How to ensure proper usability, playability, and effectiveness

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6770 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 625-634

  Olsen, Tanner ^a   Procci, Katelyn ^a   Bowers, Clint ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

serious games; usability; user experience

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; GAME DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING OUTCOME; PLAYABILITY; SERIOUS GAMES; STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE; USABILITY; USABILITY TESTING; USER EXPERIENCE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 79960481162     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21708-1_70     Document Type: Conference Paper

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