Playability and player experience research

Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory - Proceedings of DiGRA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Nacke, Lennart E ^a   Drachen, Anders ^b   Kuikkaniemi, Kai ^c   Niesenhaus, Joerg ^d   Korhonen, Hannu J ^e   Van Den Hoogen, Wouter M ^f   Poels, Karolien ^a   IJsselsteijn, Wijnand A ^f   De Kort, Yvonne A W ^f  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^e NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Game experience; Methodology; Playability; Techniques; Usability; User experience

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTATION; GAME EXPERIENCE; METHODOLOGY; PLAYABILITY; TECHNIQUES; USABILITY; USER EXPERIENCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; RESEARCH;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 84873377564     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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