The quest for usable usability heuristics for game developers

Mylly, Sami; Rajanen, Mikko; Iivari, Netta (2020-08-01)
 
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49644-9_10

Mylly, Sami
Rajanen, Mikko
Iivari, Netta
Springer Nature
01.08.2020

Mylly S., Rajanen M., Iivari N. (2020) The Quest for Usable Usability Heuristics for Game Developers. In: Siarheyeva A., Barry C., Lang M., Linger H., Schneider C. (eds) Advances in Information Systems Development. ISD 2019. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 39. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49644-9_10

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Abstract

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research has provided many processes and methods for ensuring good usability during software development. The importance of usability in games has been acknowledged. However, there is a lack of research examining usability activities during actual game development and the suitability of different usability methods for different phases of game development. Game development industry, although growing fast and already including certain large and successful companies, consists of a huge number of small-to-medium-sized enterprises and start-ups. For these companies, practical, developer-oriented tools for ensuring game usability are needed, as these companies do not have resources for hiring usability specialists for taking care of usability. This paper reviews the concept of game usability and existing research on usability methods for game development. In addition, the paper proposes a set of usable usability heuristics as a practical, developer-oriented tool to be used during the game development process as well as reports on a small-scale survey study on game usability, heuristic evaluation and usability of usability heuristics in game development.

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