Game Usability: Advice from the Experts for Advancing the Player Experience

by Katherine Isbister and Noah Schaffer

Book Overview

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 computer interaction) and usability very popular topics in the productivity software industry. Suddenly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0123744474
• ISBN13: 9780123744470
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.1"