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

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiing Y’ng Ng ◽  
Chee Weng Khong ◽  
Robert Jeyakumar Nathan
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Expressed Emotion ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Video Gaming ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Multiple Data ◽  
Affective Gaming ◽  
User Centered

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.

Poster 120 Implementing Agile, User-Centered Design in Video Games for Cognitive Rehabilitation

2012 ◽  
Vol 93 (10) ◽  
pp. e49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheryl Flynn ◽  
Joe France ◽  
Jamie Antonisse ◽  
Nina Withrington ◽  
Rachel Proffitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Cognitive Rehabilitation ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
User Centered

scholarly journals Proposal of quantitative and qualitative metrics to assess affective user-centered design of video games

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elison Ribeiro ◽  
Marcos Seruffo
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Actual Experiment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
User Centered

The experience which emerges from digital games has, above all, an emotional nature, so evaluating the user experience only through objective factors does not seem to be sufficient for the analysis of a game as it is an entertainment product. This article intends to propose a set of metrics that allow evaluating affective, or roughly speaking, emotional aspects of the user experience from digital games. The metrics are applied to a list, found in a related work, of relevant game design components that affect the subjective experience of gaming. The intended experiment in the future is a gameplay session of a game especially designed to include a system that measures in background, through the proposed metrics, players’ actions in the gaming experience. The result in this paper is a set of quantitative and qualitative metrics that will assess players’ choices in the actual experiment and that yield numerical outcomes, even though the analyzed factors are subjective.

Gaming and User-Centered Design

2015 ◽  
pp. 216-237
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Game Mechanics ◽  
User Centered

Video games are made of information and have many different layers of behavior that exist within their systems to make sure the player is experiencing the game how the designer intends. To make sure that the designer is fully communicating the game to the player there must be many different steps to creating the game in a user-centered way. There must be planning for the game so that as many pitfall as possible are avoided, and testing must occur during all of these phases so that the game mechanics that the designer is using in the system(s) are being communicated effectively. This chapter explores gaming and user-centered design.

User-Centered Design Principles for Online Learning Communities

2009 ◽  
pp. 979-991
Author(s):  
Ben K. Daniel ◽  
David O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
International Development ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Online Learning Community ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Online Learning Communities ◽  
User Centered

This chapter examines current research on online learning communities (OLCs), with the aim of identifying user-centered design (UCD) principles critical to the emergence and sustainability of distributed communities of practice (DCoPs), a kind of OLC. This research synthesis is motivated by the authors’ involvement in constructing a DCoP dedicated to improving awareness, research, and sharing data and knowledge in the field of governance and international development. It argues that the sociotechnical research program offers useable insights on questions of constructability. Its attention in particular to participatory design and human-computer interaction are germane to designing user-centered online learning communities. Aside from these insights, research has yet to probe in any systematic fashion the factors affecting the performance and sustainability of DCoP. The chapter concludes with a discussion of UCD principles for online learning community to support the construction and deployment of online learning communities.

Rancangan Lowongan Kerja Online Menggunakan Metode User Centered Design (Studi Kasus: Business Placement Center STMIK AMIKOM Yogyakarta)

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Rhomita Sari ◽  
Ema Utami ◽  
Armadyah Amborowati
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Job Vacancy ◽  
Placement Center ◽  
User Centered

Business Placement Center membantu mengelola website alumni dalam memenuhi kebutuhan alumni salah satunya memberikan informasi mengenai lowongan pekerjaan. Website Alumni Amikom sudah memberikan informasi mengenai lowongan pekerjaan. Namun website alumni masih perlu ditambahkan fitur-fitur menu penunjang dalam mempermudah pencarian informasi pekerjaan yang sesuai keinginan pengguna. Penggunaan metode User Centered Design untuk mempermudah pengguna dalam menggunakan fasilitas yang ada pada website ketika mencari informasi lowongan pekerjaan dan pengguna berperan penting dalam setiap proses UCD. Dengan pendekatan User Centered Design diharapkan dapat menghasilkan tampilan dan fungsionalitas yang maksimal pada rancangan sistem yang dibangun sehingga sesuai dengan kebutuhan pengguna. Metode penelitian yang dilakukan yaitu observasi, wawancara dan kuesioner untuk mengetahui kebutuhan pengguna. Analisis dan perancangan menggunakan pendekatan User Centered Design dan implementasi perancangan sistem. Hasil penelitiannya adalah pengguna merasa nyaman dengan tampilan antarmuka website yang sudah dibangun, informasi yang disajikan mudah dipahami dan fitur-fitur menu sudah berhasil berjalansesuai fungsi.Business Placement Center help manage the website for the needs of alumnus one of them is to provide information on a vacancy. The alumnus website’s provides information about job vacancy. The website still need the support to facilitate the searching all the features the work in accordance with what the use. The method of user centered design to make it easy for users in the use of the existing facilities at the website while searching for information a vacancy and users play an important role in any proses UCD. User Centered Design approach is expected to produce the interface and functionality maximal built in the system so that in accordance with the need of users. Research methodology was by observation, interviews and quesionnaires to find out the need of users. Analysis and design using UCD approach and implementation of the system. The results of research is users feel comfortable with a display interface of website which have been built, the information is easily understood and menu features has been successfully run a function.

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