TRUE instrumentation: Tracking real-time user experience in games

Game Usability: Advancing the Player Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 237-265

  Schuh, Eric ^a   Gunn, Daniel V ^a   Phillips, Bruce ^a   Pagulayan, Randy J ^a   Kim, Jun H ^a   Wixon, Dennis ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

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EID: 84870791648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b14580     Document Type: Chapter

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