Activity-Based Scenario Design, Development, and Assessment in Serious Games
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Although users have been interacting with computer and video games for decades, published work on gaming in the literature of human-computer interaction (HCI) has been limited until recently. Despite this lack of research, the computer games industry has become one of the most lucrative technological and media industries, raising questions about whether the HCI community really has anything to offer the industry in terms of the advancement of games development. What HCI can provide, howabStract
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