User-Centered Design in Games

Pagulayan, Randy J.; Keeker, Kevin; Fuller, Thomas; Wixon, Dennis; Romero, Ramon L.; Gunn, Daniel P.

doi:10.1201/b11963-39

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“…This is supported along with Pagulayan, Keeker, Wixon, Romero, and Fuller [23] work where the main aim in games is to experience everything in it but Desurvire, Caplan, and Toth [37] highlighted the importance of introducing the goals in early stage of the game and should be identified effortlessly. Besides that, secondary goals or minor objectives such as bonus levels should be presented to help the players achieve a further sense of positive affect [40].…”

Section: Provide Goalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rewards such as power-up, level-up, weapons, armour, and many more should be provided to draw players more deeply into the game and to keep them inspired to return to play [23,37,39]. The reward should have the same value as the player's efforts in obtaining it.…”

Section: Provide Rewardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While much progress has been made in the assessment methods, tools, and techniques to evaluate affect and emotion, several researchers [9,[22][23][24] pointed out that to gain a more reliable assessment, coexisting use of multiple methods is required to provide a more holistic result and to obtain more reliable data regarding emotion and affect. Thus, Ng and Khong [19] proposed two types of methods to be employed: (i) user feedback method and (ii) noninvasive method.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Pagulayan, Keeker, Wixon, Romero, and Fuller [23] stated that every game has a story and game designers should approach the storyline the same way as the conventional authors approach it. Players could not imagine a game without a story because the story is the main factor that drives the gameplay and other elements in the game.…”

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Evaluating Affective User-Centered Design of Video Games Using Qualitative Methods

Khong

Nathan

2018

International Journal of Computer Games Technology

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In recent years, researchers and practitioners in the human-computer interaction (HCI) community have placed a lot of focus in developing methods and processes for use in the gaming field. Affective user-centered design (AUCD) plays an important role in the game industry because it promotes emotional and mental communication, hence improving the interaction modes between users and video games. This paper looks at the development of a suitable AUCD guideline to determine if the expressed emotion, semantics, and mental concept of a tangible and intangible video gaming interface are well received by its intended users. Approaching AUCD in video games requires investigating multiple data to obtain a reliable data especially when assessing and interpreting affect and emotion. They present a challenge due to many ambiguities related to affect definition and measuring affective emotion can be very tedious due to its complexity and unpredictability. In this paper, we describe the methods and techniques used to assess affective user-centered design in video games. We also discuss our approaches within the context of existing affective gaming and user-centered design theory and data gathering procedures, including the factors affecting internal and external validity and the data analysis techniques.

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Evaluating Affective User-Centered Design of Video Games Using Qualitative Methods

Khong

Nathan

2018

International Journal of Computer Games Technology

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“…Informed consent will be obtained from the participants involved and ethics approval will be obtained from the Northeastern University Internal Review Board. The observations will be conducted in a laboratory setting and the sample size for each study will consist of 10-15 participants (based on Pagulayan [24]). The participants will be asked to play two levels of the video game World of Goo.…”

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A Proposed Method for Measuring Learning in Video Games

Fowler

Cusack²

2014

GSTF J Comput

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Abstract-There has been an increase in interest in the value and relevance of use of video games for learning. Some of this interest stems from frustration with the current education system. Some of this interest stems from observations of the large numbers of people that play video games and the potential of these games to provide active learning experiences. This paper seeks to investigate the educational potential of a commercial video game. It proposes a method for evaluating what learning takes place within a commercial video game using psychophysical methods.

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Fight or unite: Investigating game genres for image tagging

Goh

Ang

Lee

et al. 2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Applications that use games to harness human intelligence to perform various computational tasks are increasing in popularity and may be termed human computation games (HCGs). Most HCGs are collaborative in nature, requiring players to cooperate within a game to score points. Competitive versions, where players work against each other, are a more recent entrant, and have been claimed to address shortcomings of collaborative HCGs such as quality of computation. To date, however, little work has been conducted in understanding how different HCG genres influence computational performance and players' perceptions of such. In this paper we study these issues using image tagging HCGs in which users play games to generate keywords for images. Three versions were created: collaborative HCG, competitive HCG, and a control application for manual tagging.The applications were evaluated to uncover the quality of the image tags generated as well as users' perceptions. Results suggest that there is a tension between entertainment and tag quality. While participants reported liking the collaborative and competitive image tagging HCGs over the control application, those using the latter seemed to generate better quality tags. Implications of the work are discussed.

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User-Centered Design in Games

Cited by 51 publications

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Evaluating Affective User-Centered Design of Video Games Using Qualitative Methods

Evaluating Affective User-Centered Design of Video Games Using Qualitative Methods

A Proposed Method for Measuring Learning in Video Games

Fight or unite: Investigating game genres for image tagging

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