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Readings
- Psychology of Play -- Sept 10th
- Rigby and Ryan. (2007). The Player Experience of Need Satisfaction (PENS). White Paper.
- Anders Heidenberg. (2005). The Psychology Behind Games. Gamasutra.
- Nicole Lazzaro. (2004). Why We Play Games: Four Keys to More Emotion without Story. White Paper.
- Psychology of Play (cont'd) -- Sept 17
- Torben Grodal. (2000). Video Games and The Pleasure of Control. Media Entertainment: The Psychology of Its Appeal. Dolf Zillmann and Peter Vorderer. (see Piazza for the chapter).
- Halko, S., & Kientz, J. A. (2010). Personality and Persausive Technology: An Exploratory Study on Health-Promoting Mobile Applications. Persuasive Technology. (T. Ploug, P. Hasle, & H. Oinas-Kukkonen, Eds.), Vol. 6137, pp. 150–161.
- Bart Stewart. (2012). Personality and Playstyles: A Unified Model. Gamasutra.
- Chapter 6: Usability Testing from Nielson, Usability Engineering (see chapter on Piazza)
- Michael C. Medlock et al. (2005). The Rapid Iterative Test and Evaluation Method (RITE): Better Products in Less Time. Cost-Justifying Usability, Second Edition: An Update for the Internet Age, Second Edition (Interactive Technologies) Randolph G. Bias (Editor), Deborah J. Mayhew (Editor), pp 489-518.
- Amaya, G., Davis, J. P., Gunn, D. V., Harrison, C., Pagulayan, R. J., Phlips, B., and Wixon, D. (2008). Games User Research (GUR): Our Expeirence with and Evolution of Four Methods.
In Katherine
Isbister and Noah Schaffer, Game Usability.
- Heather Desurvire. (2008) Game Accessibility Principles (GAP). CHI. (on Piazza)
- Heather Desurvire. (2009). PLAY Principles. HCI 2009. (on Piazza)
Psychology of Play (Cont'd) -- Sept 20
Game Usability -- Sept 27
Reporting
Playability
Specific Instruments (recomended)
- download SPSS See download instructions from Northeastern
- SPSS Tutorial