A Hybrid User Experience Evaluation Method for Mobile Games

Yu, Q; Che, X; Ma, S; Pan, S; Yang, Y; Xing, W; Wang, X

A Hybrid User Experience Evaluation Method for Mobile Games

Yu, Q Che, X Ma, S Pan, S

Yang, Y Xing, W Wang, X

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Citation:: IEEE Access, 2018, 6 pp. 49067 - 49079
Issue Date:: 2018-07-27

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dc.contributor.author	Yu, Q	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Che, X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Ma, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Pan, S https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0794-527X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Yang, Y	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Xing, W	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Wang, X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2445-6737	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-07-27	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	IEEE Access, 2018, 6 pp. 49067 - 49079	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/128112
dc.description.abstract	© 2013 IEEE. With the development of the mobile phone industry, mobile applications market becomes thriving. However, the immature information technology and unfriendly interface bring negative user experience (UX) to the mobile users and thus affect the service life of mobile applications, especially for the most concerned entertaining applications, mobile games. As a result, the evaluating UX and finding crucial factors of UX become a challenge. Over the last decades, numerous researches have tried to deal with this issue, but none of them has clearly identified the relations among positive-negative UX, sufficient human characteristics and specific events of applications. This paper proposes a subjective-objective evaluation method. Subjective UX of mobile games is sufficiently obtained and objective UX is verified through the electrocardiogram signals and heart rate variability. In order to reveal distinct relations among UX factors, sufficient user characteristics and categories of game events, an improved RIPPER algorithm is proposed by this paper to obtain the relations. Experiments are performed with 300 testers who played mobile parkour games for at least five minutes. The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method have been verified through real experiments and objective measures. In addition, this paper provides an effective sampling method and a data analysis algorithm to obtain crucial UX factors for mobile applications.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	IEEE Access	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2859440	en_US
dc.title	A Hybrid User Experience Evaluation Method for Mobile Games	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	6	en_US
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utslib.for	08 Information and Computing Sciences	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CAI - Centre for Artificial Intelligence
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Abstract:

© 2013 IEEE. With the development of the mobile phone industry, mobile applications market becomes thriving. However, the immature information technology and unfriendly interface bring negative user experience (UX) to the mobile users and thus affect the service life of mobile applications, especially for the most concerned entertaining applications, mobile games. As a result, the evaluating UX and finding crucial factors of UX become a challenge. Over the last decades, numerous researches have tried to deal with this issue, but none of them has clearly identified the relations among positive-negative UX, sufficient human characteristics and specific events of applications. This paper proposes a subjective-objective evaluation method. Subjective UX of mobile games is sufficiently obtained and objective UX is verified through the electrocardiogram signals and heart rate variability. In order to reveal distinct relations among UX factors, sufficient user characteristics and categories of game events, an improved RIPPER algorithm is proposed by this paper to obtain the relations. Experiments are performed with 300 testers who played mobile parkour games for at least five minutes. The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method have been verified through real experiments and objective measures. In addition, this paper provides an effective sampling method and a data analysis algorithm to obtain crucial UX factors for mobile applications.

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