Game Usability: Advancing the Player Experience
- ISBN-10
- 1498759572
- ISBN-13
- 9781498759571
- Series
- Game Usability
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 398
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-08-12
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Authors
- Katherine Isbister, Noah Schaffer
Description
Computers used to be for geeks. And geeks were fine with dealing with a difficult and finicky interface--they liked this--it was even a sort of badge of honor (e.g. the Unix geeks). But making the interface really intuitive and useful--think about the first Macintosh computers--took computers far far beyond the geek crowd. The Mac made HCI (human c
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