DocumentCode
2551465
Title
A Survey on How Online Games Usability Affects the Retention of Information
Author
Papaloukas, Spyridon ; Stoli, Christina ; Patriarcheas, Kiriakos ; Xenos, Michalis
Author_Institution
Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Comput. Sci., Hellenic Open Univ., Patras, Greece
fYear
2010
fDate
10-12 Sept. 2010
Firstpage
209
Lastpage
213
Abstract
This paper evaluated the usability of two selected online games “Age of Mythology” and “Seven Kingdoms”, investigating the role of user perceived usability in the process of information retention. Evaluation performed by combining heuristic evaluation and user observation. Simultaneous the results of heuristic evaluation and information retention were verified by the use of questionnaires. The overall aim was to study how usability of a game affects the element of the learning process, which is the retention of information through images.
Keywords
Internet; computer aided instruction; computer games; user interfaces; Age of Mythology; Seven Kingdoms; heuristic evaluation; information retention; learning process; online game; Games; History; Presses; Tutorials; Usability; Visualization; heuristics; information memorisation; long-term memory; online games; short-term memory; usability evaluation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Informatics (PCI), 2010 14th Panhellenic Conference on
Conference_Location
Tripoli
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-7838-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PCI.2010.11
Filename
5600436
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