Evaluating motion: Spatial user behaviour in virtual environments

International Journal of Arts and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 294-314

  Drachen, Anders ^a   Canossa, Alessandro ^b  

^a Game Analytics Technologies ^*  (Denmark)

^b IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Game design; Game development; Gameplay metric; Geographic information system; GIS; Instrumentation; Metric; Player experience; Spatial user behaviour; User behaviour; User experience; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GAME DESIGN; GAME DEVELOPMENT; GAMEPLAY; INSTRUMENTATION; METRIC; PLAYER EXPERIENCE; USER BEHAVIOUR; USER EXPERIENCE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84858974835     PISSN: 17548853     EISSN: 17548861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJART.2011.041483     Document Type: Review

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