A Practical Guide to Usability Testing
A Practical Guide to Usability Testing
The human-computer interaction handbook
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (2nd Edition)
Spatial Presence and Emotions during Video Game Playing: Does It Matter with Whom You Play?
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
About face 3: the essentials of interaction design
About face 3: the essentials of interaction design
Defining personas in games using metrics
Future Play '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Future Play: Research, Play, Share
Flow and immersion in first-person shooters: measuring the player's gameplay experience
Future Play '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Future Play: Research, Play, Share
Using correspondence analysis to monitor the persona segmentation process
Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design
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Game designers attempt to ignite affective, emotional responses from players via engineering game designs to incite definite user experiences. Theories of emotion state that definite emotional responses are individual, and caused by the individual interaction sequence or history. Engendering desired emotions in the audience of traditional audiovisual media is a considerable challenge; however it is potentially even more difficult to achieve the same goal for the audience of interactive entertainment, because a substantial degree of control rests in the hand of the end user rather than the designer. This paper presents a possible solution to the challenge of integrating the user in the design of interactive entertainment such as computer games by employing the "persona" framework introduced by Alan Cooper. This approach is already in use in interaction design. The method can be improved by complementing the traditional narrative description of personas with quantitative, data-oriented models of predicted patterns of user behaviour for a specific computer game Additionally, persona constructs can be applied both as design-oriented metaphors during the development of games, and as analytical lenses to existing games, e.g. for evaluation of patterns of player behaviour.