User Experience

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Explain the fundamental theories and concepts of user experience; Adopt the theories and concepts of user experience; Construct a system using the concepts of user experience; Evaluate systems based on user experience theories and concepts.

Topics:

1. User Experience Evaluation in Entertainment
2. Enabling Social Play: A Framework for Design and Evaluation
3. Prescience, Involvement and Flow in Digital Games
4. Assessing the Core Element of the Gaming Experience
5. The Life and Tools of a Game Designer
6. Investigating Experiences and Attitudes Towards Videogames using a Semantic Differential Methodology
7. Video Game Development and User Experience
8. User Experience Design for Inexperienced Gamers: GAP – Game Approachability Principles
9. Digital Games, the Aftermath: Qualitative Insights into Post Game Experiences
10. Evaluating User Experience Factors using Experiments: Expressive Artificial Faces Embedded in Contexts
11. Evaluating Exertion Games
12. Beyond the Gamepad: HCI and Game Controller Design and Evaluation
13. Using Heuristics to Evaluate the Overall User Experience of Video Games and Advanced Interaction Games