Evaluation of mobile games using playability heuristics

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8237 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 264-274

  Soomro, Sarmad ^a   Wan Ahmad, Wan Fatimah ^a   Sulaiman, Suziah ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

heuristic evaluation; heuristics; mobile games; playability

Indexed keywords

ANDROID GAMES; GAME PLAYING; HEURISTIC EVALUATION; HEURISTICS; MOBILE GAMES; MULTIPLAYERS; PLAYABILITY; TOUCH SCREEN MOBILE DEVICES;

MOBILE DEVICES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 84887103577     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02958-0_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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