[humaine news] New book "Evaluating User Experience in Games"

[Kostas Karpouzis]

Book announcement: Evaluating User Experience in Games

From: 
http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/book/978-1-84882-962-6:

About this book

User Experience has become a major research area in human-computer
interaction. The area of game design and development has been focusing
on user experience evaluation for the last 20 years, although a clear
definition of user experience is still to be established.

The contributors to this volume explore concepts that enhance the
overall user experience in games such as fun, playability, flow,
immersion and many others. Presenting an overview of current practice
from academia and industry in game development, the book shows a variety
of methods that can be used to evaluate user experience in games, not
only during game-play but also before and after the game play.

/Evaluating User Experiences in Games:/
     * Presents a broad range of user experience evaluation methods and
       concepts;
     * Provides insights on when to apply the various user experience
       evaluation methods in the development cycle and shows how methods
       can be also applied to a more general HCI context;
     * Includes new research on evaluating user experience during game
       play and after; and social play;
     * Describes new evaluation methods;
     * Details methods that are also applicable for exertion games or
       tabletop games.

This comprehensive book will be welcomed by researchers and
practitioners in the field.

Written for:
Researchers and practitioners from the field of game development and
evaluation, master and PhD students working on one of the various new
aspects of user experience in gaming

Keywords: Usability, User experience