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Usability Heuristics for Virtual Worlds

Authors:
Cristian Rusu
Roberto Muñoz
Silvana Roncagliolo
Sebastian Rudloff
Virginica Rusu
Arturo Figueroa

Keywords: usability; usability heuristics; virtual worlds

Abstract:
Usability evaluation for applications based on emerging information technology brings new challenges. Virtual Worlds (VWs) are computer-simulated virtual environments accessed by multiple users, through their avatars. VWs constitute a growing space for collaborative play, learning and work. When evaluating VWs’ usability, there is a need for new evaluation methods or at least for the use of traditional evaluations in novel ways. A set of heuristics is proposed, in order to help the usability evaluations of VWs applications.

Pages: 16 to 19

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: August 21, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4340

ISBN: 978-1-61208-148-9

Location: Nice/Saint Laurent du Var, France

Dates: from August 21, 2011 to August 27, 2011