How does it play better? Exploring user testing and Biometric Storyboards in games user research

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1499-1508

  Mirza Babaei, Pejman ^a   Nacke, Lennart E ^b   Gregory, John ^b   Collins, Nick ^a   Fitzpatrick, Geraldine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Games; Games user research; Physiological measures; Storyboards; User experience; User testing; Visualization

Indexed keywords

GAMES; GAMES USER RESEARCHES; PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASURES; STORYBOARDS; USER EXPERIENCE; USER TESTING;

BIOMETRICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; RESEARCH;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84877959796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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