TY - GEN
T1 - Usagame - A new methodology to support user centered design of touchscreen applications
AU - Vinagre, Pedro
AU - Nunes, Isabel L.
N1 - sem pdf conforme despacho.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Touchscreen mobile devices growth resulted in an explosion of the mobile applications. Focusing on touch mobile game applications this study aims to fulfill a research gap, creating appropriate usability guidelines for these applications. Concerns about usability, touch technologies, mobile devices and game testing, provided the background needs for this study. Initial game application tests allowed for the creation and implementation of such proposed usability guidelines into a support checklist (UsaGame), designed to help applications developers. An evaluation test was performed with 20 users in order to assess the validity of the proposed guidelines. Results from the test of the two builds from the same game application allowed comparisons that led to the assessment of the importance of some of the guidelines implemented into the application. Results suggested a usability improvement on the game application implemented with the guidelines. Furthermore results allowed commenting on all proposed usability guidelines.
AB - Touchscreen mobile devices growth resulted in an explosion of the mobile applications. Focusing on touch mobile game applications this study aims to fulfill a research gap, creating appropriate usability guidelines for these applications. Concerns about usability, touch technologies, mobile devices and game testing, provided the background needs for this study. Initial game application tests allowed for the creation and implementation of such proposed usability guidelines into a support checklist (UsaGame), designed to help applications developers. An evaluation test was performed with 20 users in order to assess the validity of the proposed guidelines. Results from the test of the two builds from the same game application allowed comparisons that led to the assessment of the importance of some of the guidelines implemented into the application. Results suggested a usability improvement on the game application implemented with the guidelines. Furthermore results allowed commenting on all proposed usability guidelines.
KW - Mobile Applications
KW - Touch Mobile Devices
KW - Usability Checklist
KW - Usability Touch guidelines
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84880711558&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-39229-0_66
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-39229-0_66
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84880711558
SN - 978-364239228-3
VL - 8012 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 620
EP - 629
BT - Design, User Experience, and Usability: Design Philosophy, Methods, and Tools - Second International Conference, DUXU 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability: Design Philosophy, Methods, and Tools, DUXU 2013, Held as Part of 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2013
Y2 - 21 July 2013 through 26 July 2013
ER -