The impact of tutorials on games of varying complexity

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 59-68

  Andersen, Erik ^a   O'Rourke, Eleanor ^a   Liu, Yun En ^a   Snider, Richard ^a   Lowdermilk, Jeff ^a   Truong, David ^a   Cooper, Seth ^a   Popović, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytics; Games; Multivariate testing; Tutorials

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICS; GAMES; LEARNABILITY; TUTORIALS; VIDEO GAME;

GAME THEORY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TEACHING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84862111111     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2207687     Document Type: Conference Paper

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