Heuristic usability evaluation on games: a modular approach

Heuristic evaluation is the preferred method to assess usability in games when experts conduct this evaluation. Many heuristics guidelines have been proposed attending to specificities of games but they only focus on specific subsets of games or platforms. In fact, to date the most used guideline to...

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Autores: Yáñez Gómez, Rosa, Font Calvo, Juan Luis, Cascado Caballero, Daniel, Sevillano Ramos, José Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/93739
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6593-1
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Palabra clave:Heuristic evaluation
Games
Usability
Heuristic guidelines
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spelling Heuristic usability evaluation on games: a modular approachYáñez Gómez, RosaFont Calvo, Juan LuisCascado Caballero, DanielSevillano Ramos, José LuisHeuristic evaluationGamesUsabilityHeuristic guidelinesHeuristic evaluation is the preferred method to assess usability in games when experts conduct this evaluation. Many heuristics guidelines have been proposed attending to specificities of games but they only focus on specific subsets of games or platforms. In fact, to date the most used guideline to evaluate games usability is still Nielsen’s proposal, which is focused on generic software. As a result, most evaluations do not cover important aspects in games such as mobility, multiplayer interactions, enjoyability and playability, etc. To promote the usage of new heuristics adapted to different game and platform aspects we propose a modular approach based on the classification of existing game heuristics using metadata and a tool, MUSE (Meta-heUristics uSability Evaluation tool) for games, which allows a rebuild of heuristic guidelines based on metadata selection in order to obtain a customized list for every real evaluation case. The usage of these new rebuilt heuristic guidelines allows an explicit attendance to a wide range of usability aspects in games and a better detection of usability issues. We preliminarily evaluate MUSE with an analysis of two different games, using both the Nielsen’s heuristics and the customized heuristic lists generated by our tool.Unión Europea PI055-15/E03SpringerArquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores2019info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/93739https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6593-1reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)InglésMultimedia Tools and Applications, 78 (4), 4937-4964.PI055-15/E03https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11042-018-6593-1info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:idus.us.es:11441/937392026-06-17T12:51:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Heuristic usability evaluation on games: a modular approach
title Heuristic usability evaluation on games: a modular approach
spellingShingle Heuristic usability evaluation on games: a modular approach
Yáñez Gómez, Rosa
Heuristic evaluation
Games
Usability
Heuristic guidelines
title_short Heuristic usability evaluation on games: a modular approach
title_full Heuristic usability evaluation on games: a modular approach
title_fullStr Heuristic usability evaluation on games: a modular approach
title_full_unstemmed Heuristic usability evaluation on games: a modular approach
title_sort Heuristic usability evaluation on games: a modular approach
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Yáñez Gómez, Rosa
Font Calvo, Juan Luis
Cascado Caballero, Daniel
Sevillano Ramos, José Luis
author Yáñez Gómez, Rosa
author_facet Yáñez Gómez, Rosa
Font Calvo, Juan Luis
Cascado Caballero, Daniel
Sevillano Ramos, José Luis
author_role author
author2 Font Calvo, Juan Luis
Cascado Caballero, Daniel
Sevillano Ramos, José Luis
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author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Heuristic evaluation
Games
Usability
Heuristic guidelines
topic Heuristic evaluation
Games
Usability
Heuristic guidelines
description Heuristic evaluation is the preferred method to assess usability in games when experts conduct this evaluation. Many heuristics guidelines have been proposed attending to specificities of games but they only focus on specific subsets of games or platforms. In fact, to date the most used guideline to evaluate games usability is still Nielsen’s proposal, which is focused on generic software. As a result, most evaluations do not cover important aspects in games such as mobility, multiplayer interactions, enjoyability and playability, etc. To promote the usage of new heuristics adapted to different game and platform aspects we propose a modular approach based on the classification of existing game heuristics using metadata and a tool, MUSE (Meta-heUristics uSability Evaluation tool) for games, which allows a rebuild of heuristic guidelines based on metadata selection in order to obtain a customized list for every real evaluation case. The usage of these new rebuilt heuristic guidelines allows an explicit attendance to a wide range of usability aspects in games and a better detection of usability issues. We preliminarily evaluate MUSE with an analysis of two different games, using both the Nielsen’s heuristics and the customized heuristic lists generated by our tool.
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