Heuristics for designing enjoyable user interfaces: Lessons from computer games

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1982, Pages 63-69

  Malone, Thomas W ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 85039412602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/800049.801756     Document Type: Conference Paper

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