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"games user research is the definitive guide to methods and practices for games user professionals, researchers and students seeking additional expertise or starting advice in the game development industry. It is the go-to volume for everyone working with games, with an emphasis on those new to the field."--Back cover.

Sociology of culture --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Video gamers --- Video games --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Research --- Design --- Video gamers - Research --- Video games - Design --- User interfaces (Computer systems) - Design

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User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Expert systems (Computer science) --- Congresses --- Design --- Information Technology --- Computer Science (Hardware & Networks) --- User interfaces (Computer systems) - Congresses --- User interfaces (Computer systems) - Design - Congresses --- Expert systems (Computer science) - Congresses

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‘User-designer relations’ concerns the sorts of working relationships that arise between developers and end users of IT products - the different ways designers of IT products seek to engage with users, and the ways users seek to influence product design. It is through the shifting patterns of these relations that IT products are realised. Although it has generally been accepted that achieving better user-designer relations will improve the quality of IT products, there has been little consensus on how this might be achieved. This book aims to deepen our understanding of the relationships between users and designers both as they emerge in the wild and as a consequence of our attempts to intervene. Through a series of case studies the book juxtaposes in-depth explorations of different perspectives and approaches to thinking about - and doing - user-designer relations, considering important implications for design and computer science more generally.

Human-computer interaction. --- User interfaces (Computer systems) -- Design -- Case studies. --- User interfaces (Computer systems) -- Design. --- User-centered system design. --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Design. --- Design --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Cognitive engineering (System design) --- Participatory design (System design) --- UCD (System design) --- Usability engineering (System design) --- User-centered design (System design) --- Computer-human interaction --- Human factors in computing systems --- Interaction, Human-computer --- Computer science. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Computer Science. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- System design --- Human engineering --- User-centered system design --- Informatics --- Science

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With over 100,000 iPhone applications and 125,000 registered iPhone developers, is it still possible to create a top-selling app that stands apart from the six-figure crowd? Of course, but you'll need more than a great idea and flawless code—an eye-catching and functional user interface design is essential. With this book, you'll get practical advice on user interface design from 10 innovative developers who, like you, have sat wondering how to best utilize the iPhone's minimal screen real estate. Their stories illustrate precisely why, with more apps and more experienced, creative developers, no iPhone app can succeed without a great user interface. Whatever type of iPhone project you have in mind—social networking app, game, or reference tool—you'll benefit from the information presented in this book. More than just tips and pointers, you'll learn from the authors' hands-on experiences, including: Dave Barnard of App Cubby on how to use Apple's user interface conventions and test for usability to assure better results Joachim Bondo, creator of Deep Green Chess, beats a classic design problem of navigating large dataset results in the realm of the iPhone Former Apple employee Dan Burcaw tailors user interfaces and adds the power of CoreLocation, Address Book, and Camera to the social networking app, Brightkite David Kaneda takes his Basecamp project management client, Outpost, from a blank page (literally) to a model of dashboard clarity Craig Kemper focuses on the smallest details to create his award-winning puzzle games TanZen and Zentomino Tim Novikoff, a graduate student in applied math with no programming experience, reduces a complex problem to simplicity in Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab Long-time Mac developer Chris Parrish goes into detail on the creation of the digital postcard app, Postage, which won the 2009 Apple Design Award Flash developer Keith Peters provides solutions for bringing games that were designed for a desktop screen to the small, touch-sensitive world of the iPhone Jürgen Siebert, creator of FontShuffle, outlines the anatomy of letters and how to select the right fonts for maximum readability on the iPhone screen Eddie Wilson, an interactive designer, reveals the fine balance of excellent design and trial-by-fire programming used to create his successful app Snow Report Combined with Apress' best-selling Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK, you'll be prepared to match great code with striking design and create the app that everyone is talking about.

Application software. --- iPhone (Smartphone). --- User interfaces (Computer systems) -- Design. --- iPhone (Smartphone) --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Application software --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Electrical Engineering --- Design --- Development. --- Programming. --- Apple iPhone (Smartphone) --- Development of application software --- Computer science. --- Computer Science. --- Computer Science, general. --- Smartphones --- Apple computer. --- Apple and iOS. --- Computer Applications. --- Informatics --- Science --- Microcomputers --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software

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The interaction between a user and a device forms the foundation of today’s application design. Covering the following topics: A suite of five structural principles helping designers to structure their mockups; An agile method for exploiting desktop eye tracker equipment in combination with mobile devices; An approach to explore large-scale collections based on classification systems; A framework based on the use of modeling and components composition techniques to simplify the development of organizational collaborative systems; A low-cost virtual reality system that provides highly satisfying virtual experiences; Popular hardware and software tools and technologies for developing augmented and virtual reality applications; An implementation to handle connectivity between virtual reality applications and SensAble® Technology Phantom Haptic Devices; The results of a research study implementing a teaching technological strategy to help Down syndrome children develop their reading skills; Platform independent models decreasing the level of cohesion between communication technologies and software for ubiquitous computing; A method for applying gamification as a tool to improve the participation and motivation of people in performing different tasks. New Trends in Interaction, Virtual Reality and Modeling collects the best research from Interacción 2012 and MexIHC 2012, and presents the state-of-the-art in human-computer interaction, user interfaces, user experience and virtual reality. Written by researchers from leading universities, research institutes and industry, this volume forms a valuable source of reference for researchers in HCI and VR.

Human-computer interaction. --- Interactive multimedia. --- Social interaction. --- User interfaces (Computer systems) -- Design. --- Virtual reality. --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Computer simulation. --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Environments, Virtual --- Virtual environments --- Virtual worlds --- Computer science. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Multimedia systems. --- Computer Science. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- Media Design. --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- Computer simulation --- Reality --- Informatics --- Science --- Multimedia systems . --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction