Artículo
Heuristic usability evaluation on games: a modular approach
Autor/es | Yáñez Gómez, Rosa
Font Calvo, Juan Luis Cascado Caballero, Daniel Sevillano Ramos, José Luis |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores |
Fecha de publicación | 2019 |
Fecha de depósito | 2020-03-02 |
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Resumen | 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 ... 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. |
Identificador del proyecto | PI055-15/E03 |
Cita | Yáñez Gómez, R., Font Calvo, J.L., Cascado Caballero, D. y Sevillano Ramos, J.L. (2019). Heuristic usability evaluation on games: a modular approach. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 78 (4), 4937-4964. |
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