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Informal HCI: what may students learn from playability issues during a game design workshop?

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ChileCHI '13: Proceedings of the 2013 Chilean Conference on Human - Computer Interaction

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2535597.2535613

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Human-Computer Interaction topics have been previously used to motivate and attract students to the field of Computer Science. However, as students are growing up in contact with several interactive computational devices, one could suspect that they already possess an empirical, informal knowledge about the quality of some types of human-computer interfaces. In order to test this hypothesis, we developed a Game Design Workshop to be offered to high school students. Based on the results of its first offering, we identified that issues related to displaying the game status and score, response time of controls and graphical and sound features were quite relevant to students. Students added additional features to solve those issues in a spontaneous way. An analysis of the developed games indicates that students had to learn and apply new concepts related to programming in order to implement the additional features.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/09523987.2019.1669876

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Informal HCI: what may students learn from playability issues during a game design workshop?
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods

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Ozdowska ASweetser PDaiiani M(2023)A Scoping Review of Heuristics in Videos Games Research: Definitions, Development, Application, and OperationalisationProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/36110357:CHI PLAY(402-424)Online publication date: 29-Sep-2023
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Altanis IRetalis S(2019)A multifaceted students’ performance assessment framework for motion-based game-making projects with ScratchEducational Media International10.1080/09523987.2019.1669876(1-17)Online publication date: 25-Sep-2019
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