Evaluating User Experience in Games

1. User Experience Evaluation in Entertainment
Regina Bernhaupt

2. Enabling Social Play: A Framework for Design and Evaluation
Katherine Isbister

3. Presence, Involvement, and Flow in Digital Games
Jari Takatalo, Jukka Häkkinen, Miikka Lehtonen, Jyrki Kaistinen, Göte Nyman

4. Assessing the Core Elements of the Gaming Experience
Eduardo H. Calvillo-Gámez, Paul Cairns, Anna L. Cox

5. The Life and Tools of a Games Designer
Emily Brown

6. Investigating Experiences and Attitudes Toward Videogames Using a Semantic Differential Methodology
Philippe Lemay, Martin Maheux Lessard

7. Video Game Development and User Experience
Graham McAllister, Gareth R. White

8. User Experience Design for Inexperienced Gamers: GAP – Game Approachability Principles
Heather Desurvire, Charlotte Wiberg

9. Digital Games, the Aftermath: Qualitative Insights into Postgame Experiences
Karolien Poels, Wijnand IJsselsteijn, Yvonne de Kort, Bart Van Iersel

10. Evaluating User Experience Factors Using Experiments: Expressive Artificial Faces Embedded in Contexts
Michael Lankes, Regina Bernhaupt, Manfred Tscheligi

11. Evaluating Exertion Games
Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze

12. Beyond the Gamepad: HCI and Game Controller Design and Evaluation
Michael Brown, Aidan Kehoe, Jurek Kirakowski, Ian Pitt

13. Using Heuristics to Evaluate the Overall User Experience of Video Games and Advanced Interaction Games
Koeffel Christina, Hochleitner Wolfgang, Leitner Jakob, Haller Michael, Geven Arjan, Tscheligi Manfred

Keywords: Computer Science, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction