Using physiological measures in conjunction with other UX approaches for better understanding of the player's gameplay experiences

نویسنده

  • Pejman Mirza-Babaei
چکیده

The goal of video games is to challenge and entertain the players. Successful video games deliver experience that impact players on a level of arousal. Therefore undertaking a user experience (UX) study is crucial to ensure that a game achieves both critical and financial success. However, traditional usability methods (observation, subjective reporting, questionnaire, and interview) have a number of limitations on game user research.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1102.3325  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010