Scaffolding player location awareness through audio cues in first-person shooters

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 3450-3461

  Johanson, Colby ^a   Mandryk, Regan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audio cues; Expertise development; First person shooter; Games; Novices; Scaffolding; Training

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; LOCATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SCAFFOLDS;

AUDIO CUES; EXPERTISE DEVELOPMENT; FIRST PERSON SHOOTER; GAMES; NOVICES; SCAFFOLDING;

AUDIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 85015011441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2858036.2858172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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