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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Usability, playability, and long-term engagement in computer games
Does usability affect long term user engagement in computer games, or are other factors more influential? This paper explores this issue, discussing an evaluation study that measu...
Alessandro Febretti, Franca Garzotto
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
114views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Engaging students through mobile game development
This paper describes using mobile game development as a motivational tool to engage students early in the curriculum. Mobile devices have become an integral part of everyday lives...
Stan Kurkovsky
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Using heuristics to evaluate the playability of games
Heuristics have become an accepted and widely used adjunct method of usability evaluation in Internet and software development. This report introduces Heuristic Evaluation for Pla...
Heather Desurvire, Martin Caplan, Jozsef A. Toth
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Game Usability Heuristics (PLAY) for Evaluating and Designing Better Games: The Next Iteration
Game developers have begun applying formal human-computer interaction (HCI) principles in design. Desurvire et al [2] adapted a set of Heuristics for productivity software to games...
Heather Desurvire, Charlotte Wiberg
HICSS
2006
IEEE
104views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Extending the Use of Games in Health Care
Digital games have the ability to engage both children and adults alike. We are exploring the use of games for children with long term treatment regimes, where motivation for comp...
Carolyn R. Watters, Michael A. Shepherd, Azza Abou...