An empirical evaluation of user interfaces for a mobile video game

Entertainment Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-10

  Browne, Kevin ^a   Anand, Christopher ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mobile computing; Mobile user interfaces; Video game user interfaces

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; TOUCH SCREENS;

EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; FINGER GESTURES; GENERAL PUBLICS; HUMAN SUBJECTS; MARKET PENETRATION; MOBILE PLATFORM; MOBILE USER INTERFACE; MOBILE VIDEO; TOUCH SCREEN; VIDEO GAME;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84857141473     PISSN: 18759521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. I. Sherr, Global smartphone shipments to double in four years - iSuppli, 2010. Available from: <> (accessed 31.08.2010). http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=456081.
2. Gartner says worldwide media tablet sales on pace to reach 19.5 million units in 2010, 2010. Available from: <> (accessed May 28.05.2011). http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1452614.
3. Canalys, Majority of smart phones now have touch screens, 2010. Available from: <> (accessed 31.08.2010). http://www.canalys.com/pr/2010/r2010021.html.
4. J. Jefferson, Mobile Gaming Expected To Soar as Focus Turns to Cell Phones, 2010. Available from: <> (accessed 31.08.2010). http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=16916&news=Mobile+Gaming+Consoles+Decline.
5. Y. Dadashi, Fundamental Understanding and Future Guidance for Handheld Computers in the Rail Industry, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2009.
6. T. Yamabe, V. Lehdonvirta, H. Ito, H. Soma, H. Kimura, T. Nakajima, Applying pervasive technologies to create economic incentives that alter consumer behavior, in: Ubicomp '09: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2009, pp. 175-184.
7. Chatterjee S., Chakraborty S., Sarker S., Sarker S., Lau F.Y. Examining the success factors for mobile work in healthcare: a deductive study. Decis. Support Syst. 2009, 46:620-633.
8. S. Segan, RIM BlackBerry Storm 9530 (Verizon), 2008. Available from: <> (accessed 31.08.2010). http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331977,00.asp.
9. B. Cha, RIM BlackBerry Storm (Verizon Wireless), 2008. Available from: <> (accessed 31.08.2010). http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/rim-blackberry-storm-verizon/4505-6452_7-33311850.html#reviewPage1.
10. A. Sharma, S. Silver, BlackBerry Storm Is Off To Bit of a Bumpy Start, 2009. Available from: (accessed 31.08.2010). http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB23292905716613927.html.
11. Gilbertson P., Coulton P., Chehimi F., Vajk T. Using " tilt" as an interface to control " no-button" 3-d mobile games. Comput. Entertain. 2008, 6:1-13.
12. C. Wei, G. Marsden, J. Gain, Novel interface for first person shooting games on pdas, in: OZCHI '08: Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2008, pp. 113-121.
13. F. Chehimi, P. Coulton, Motion controlled mobile 3D multiplayer gaming, in: ACE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2008, pp. 267-270.
14. P. Rouanet, J. Bechu, P.-Y. Oudeyer, A comparison of three interfaces using handheld devices to intuitively drive and show objects to a social robot: the impact of underlying metaphors, 2009.
15. Zirkle P., Hogue J. iPhone Game Development: Developing 2D and 3D Games in Objective-C 2009, O'Reilly Media.
16. Lundstedt T., Seifert E., Abramo L., Thelin B., Nystr-åm Gsa, Pettersen J., Bergman R. Experimental design and optimization. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 1998, 42:3-40.
17. Andre A.D., Wickens C.D. When users want whats not best for them. Ergonomics in Design 1995, 3:10-14.
18. Shneiderman B. The future of interactive systems and the emergence of direct manipulation. Proceedings of the NYU Symposium on User Interfaces on Human Factors and Interactive Computer Systems 1984, 1-28. Ablex Publishing Corp., Norwood, NJ, USA.
19. Norman D.A. The Psychology of Everyday Things 1988, Basic Books.
20. C.D. Wickens, J. Lee, Y.D. Liu, S. Gordon-Becker, Introduction to Human Factors Engineering, second ed., Prentice-Hall Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA, 2003.
21. Research in Motion, Blackberry Smartphones UI Guidelines, 2010. Version 2.4.
22. Apple Inc., iPhone Human Interface Guidelines, 2010. 2010-08-03.
23. Palm Inc., Human Interface Guidelines, 2010. Available from: (accessed 2.09.2010). http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1836&Itemid=52&limitstart=2.
24. Google Inc., User Interface Guidelines, 2010. Available from: <> (accessed 2.09.2010). http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/index.html.