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Methods for Evaluating Games - How to Measure Usability and User
Experience in Games?
 
held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Advances in
Computer Entertainment Technology (http://www.ace2007.org/)
<http://www.ace2007.org/)>  on June 12th in Salzburg, Austria
 
Workshop Aims & Goals

Today, there is no common agreement what kind of (usability evaluation)
methods can and should be used to enhance the design of games. Various
aspects can contribute to the evaluation of games. But several questions
arise:

*	What kind of evaluation concepts and methods actually are used
in the industry, and what are their limitations? 
*	Do today's evaluation concepts and methods address industry
needs? 
*	What factors of game experience are measured and have to be
measured? 
*	User experience and usability will be especially influenced by
input and output devices/modalities and interaction techniques. How can
we evaluate new forms and developments of interaction techniques in
gaming - for example emotion or eye-movement as input for games, ambient
displays or virtual environments as output? 
*	Is there a common framework of methods that are appropriate to
evaluate the user experience in games? Or are current approaches just
focused on several aspects of user experience - not on a general concept
of user experience? 
*	What are the pros and cons of available methods and what are the
innovations potentials toward other methods? 
*	What can the (HCI) community do - to support a classification of
methods used in that area? 



Submission

The workshop is intended for researchers and practitioners. We aim to
address a wide range of professions and areas like game design and
development, media entertainment, designers, user experience
researchers, product designers and industrial designers, academics
working in the field of user experience evaluation methods. The workshop
addresses people from any field dealing with evaluation methods either
for evaluation usability, user experience or related concepts like fun.
We especially encourage the submission of use-cases showing the
limitations of currently applied methods. 
Workshop attendees will submit a 4-page position paper related to
methods used during game evaluation, specifically addressing possible
shortcomings. Before the workshop the organizers will identify the
application domains and methods used. Participants will be asked to
present a 5 min statements in one of the defined groups. Then all the
position papers within the group will be discussed. The workshop is
closed with a final discussion rounds on possible next steps to enhance
the methodological development in the area of gaming. 
The positions papers will be made available on a website, forming the
basis for a white paper on current evaluation methods for user
experience in games. The white paper is intended to serve as a basis for
a planned edited book on new trends in evaluating games. 
This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners
to lay the basis for a common framework in evaluating the user
experience of games.
 
Submission should be made online using the ACE conference submission
tool (www.ace2007.org <http://www.ace2007.org> <http://www.ace2007.org>
).
 
Important Dates:

*	10 April 2007: Submission of position papers  (EXTENDED
DEADLINE)
*	15 April 2007: Notification of acceptance 
*	20 April 2007: End of early registration 
*	12 June 2007: Workshop 


Publication:

Accepted position papers will be published on the workshop website.
Depending on the outcomes of the workshop and the interests of the
workshop attendees, the organizers may also coordinate further
publications.
 
Workshop Organizers:

Regina Bernhaupt, ICT&S Center, Salzburg University, Austria
Manfred Eckschlager, ITragnarion Studios, Spain
Manfred Tscheligi, ICT&S Center, Salzburg University, Austria




 

Dr. Regina Bernhaupt

 

HCI&Usability Unit, ICT&S Center

University of Salzburg

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8044 4814 

 


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