@inproceedings{331c56cb8d0e4e5fab7de3d8f69b0c60,
title = "The evaluation of interface elements and game elements in serious games: A peer assessment approach",
abstract = "Previous studies indicated that game elements may make players have joyful experience but some research indicated that players' learning performance may not be as good as what was expected. This might be due to the fact that poor user interface presented in serious games hindered students' learning performance. Therefore, designers should not only consider game elements, but also take into account interface elements. However, there is a lack of such studies that pay attention to both game elements and interface elements when developing serious games. To this end, this study aims to investigate how interface elements and game elements are considered in the design of serious games. A peer assessment approach is applied to achieve this aim. The results from the peer assessment indicated that designers generally tended to focus on game elements and paid less attention to interface elements. Furthermore, all game elements were similarly considered but interface elements were not equally treated. In particular, designers seemed to ignore the importance of error prevention and recovery from errors.",
keywords = "Game elements, Nielsen heuristics, Serious game, User interface",
author = "Yeh, {Chia Chi} and Chen, {Hsun Chu} and Wang, {Jen Hang} and Chen, {Sherry Y.}",
note = "Funding Information: This study is supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China under Contract No. MOST 103-2511-S-008 -010 -MY3, MOST 104-2511-S-008 -008 -MY3, and MOST 104-2811-S-008-007.; null ; Conference date: 30-11-2015 Through 04-12-2015",
year = "2015",
language = "???core.languages.en_GB???",
series = "Workshop Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2015",
publisher = "Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education",
pages = "21--28",
editor = "Ying-Tien Wu and Tomoko Kojiri and Kong, {Siu Cheung} and Feiyue Qiu and Hiroaki Ogata and Thepchai Supnithi and Yonggu Wang and Weiqin Chen",
booktitle = "Workshop Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2015",
}