Using Color Guidance to Improve on Usability in Interactive Environments

Brandse, Michael; Tomimatsu, Kiyoshi

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07857-1_1

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“…Furthermore, challenge and skills present a dynamic pair, in which tackling the former increases the player's ability and skills [70]. Challenges should thus have an increasing level of difficulty and novelty throughout the game, with carefully designed levels to include novice gamers [11]. Salen and Zimmerman's concept of the interplay of challenge and skills identifies one of the inherent challenges of game design [57].…”

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An old game, new experience: exploring the effect of players’ personal gameplay history on game experience

İnal

Wake

2022

Univ Access Inf Soc

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This experimental study explores how game experience differs between players with different gameplay histories within the same game universe. We are interested in how prolonged engagement with a game series affects the gameplay experience in relation to the most recent game version in the series. A total of 54 participants were divided into four groups depending on their gaming experience, namely non-gamers, new-gamers, old-gamers and core-gamers. They played the mobile version of Super Mario Run, and questionnaire data was collected after the gameplay session. The results of the study showed that not only the players’ personal gameplay history but also the length of experience or degree of familiarity with the game universe affected the experience of playing a new game in the same game universe. Additionally, familiarity with the game universe had a positive impact on the feeling of competence, immersion, emotions and flow.

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An old game, new experience: exploring the effect of players’ personal gameplay history on game experience

İnal

Wake

2022

Univ Access Inf Soc

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“…This requires keeping the balance between not helping at all, and helping players too much while they are navigating through a level or solving a task [28]. It is essential to consider factors like a consistent color palette [27] or the placement of visual cues throughout a game [29] to provide thorough player guidance. Games with a strong focus on exploration, like What remains of Edith Finch [30], use visual cues to guide the player through the game world [31].…”

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“…To define a focus for this work, we created a prototype (see Figure 1) embedded in a specific genre (i.e., exploration games), which we deem is suitable for a gaze-based guidance system: In many cases (e.g., The Vanishing of Ethan Carter [26]) players are confronted with (visually) complex game scenarios and are typically supported through various guidance means (e.g., colour [27] or animation [28]). As the visual channel is often the focus of exploration games (e.g., find a hidden object to progress in the game), the incorporation of the players' gaze for guidance appears to be feasible.…”

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gEYEded: Subtle and Challenging Gaze-Based Player Guidance in Exploration Games

Lankes

Haslinger

Wolff

2019

MTI

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This paper investigates the effects of gaze-based player guidance on the perceived game experience, performance, and challenge in a first-person exploration game. In contrast to existing research, the proposed approach takes the game context into account by providing players not only with guidance but also granting them an engaging game experience with a focus on exploration. This is achieved by incorporating gaze-sensitive areas that indicate the location of relevant game objects. A comparative study was carried out to validate our concept and to examine if a game supported with a gaze guidance feature triggers a more immersive game experience in comparison to a crosshair guidance version and a solution without any guidance support. In general, our study findings reveal a more positive impact of the gaze-based guidance approach on the experience and performance in comparison to the other two conditions. However, subjects had a similar impression concerning the game challenge in all conditions.

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“…Prior work found that color is another important factor to consider when studying mobile application usability (Hartmann, et al 2008;Sonderegger et al, 2012) because colorful application interfaces produce initial affective user reactions, which could ultimately impact the user's continued intention to use mobile application (Nilsson, 2009;Leung et al, 2011;Dong and Zhong, 2012). Relevant work on other types of applications suggests that color becomes important in providing guidance to users (Brandse and Tomimatsu, 2014) or influencing trust in online shopping contexts (Pelet and Papadopoulou, 2011). Instead of conceptualizing color as an independent construct, mobile application usability studies typically manipulated color as part of experimental studies.…”

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Leveraging Microsoft׳s mobile usability guidelines: Conceptualizing and developing scales for mobile application usability

Hoehle

Aljafari

Venkatesh

2016

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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This research conceptualizes mobile application usability and develops and validates an instrument to measure the same. Mobile application usability has attracted widespread attention in the field of human-computer interaction because well-designed applications can enhance user experiences. To conceptualize mobile application usability, we analyzed Microsoft's mobile usability guidelines and defined 10 constructs representing mobile application usability. Next, we conducted a pilot study followed by a quantitative assessment of the content validity of the scales. We then sequentially applied exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to two samples (n ¼404; n ¼501) consisting of German consumers using mobile social media applications on their smartphones. To evaluate the confirmatory factor model, we followed a step-by-step process assessing unidimensionality, discriminant validity and reliability. To assess the nomological validity of our instrument, we examined the impact of mobile application usability on two outcomes: continued intention to use and brand loyalty. The results confirmed that mobile application usability was a good predictor of both outcomes. The constructs and scales associated with mobile application usability validated in this paper can be used to guide future research in human-computer interaction and aid in the effective design of mobile applications.

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Using Color Guidance to Improve on Usability in Interactive Environments

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An old game, new experience: exploring the effect of players’ personal gameplay history on game experience

An old game, new experience: exploring the effect of players’ personal gameplay history on game experience

gEYEded: Subtle and Challenging Gaze-Based Player Guidance in Exploration Games

Leveraging Microsoft׳s mobile usability guidelines: Conceptualizing and developing scales for mobile application usability

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