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Smartphone Games Heuristics (SmGH) – Towards a Standard Set of Platform-Centric Heuristic for Smartphone Games Evaluation.

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Názov: Smartphone Games Heuristics (SmGH) – Towards a Standard Set of Platform-Centric Heuristic for Smartphone Games Evaluation.
Autori: Iyer, Ravishankar Subramani1 (AUTHOR) rv505461@dal.ca, Ndulue, Chinenye1 (AUTHOR), Meier, Sandra2 (AUTHOR), Orji, Rita1 (AUTHOR)
Zdroj: International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Apr2025, Vol. 41 Issue 8, p5057-5078. 22p.
Predmety: *APPLICATION software, *SMARTPHONES, CONTENT analysis, VIDEO game consoles, SOCIAL interaction, MOBILE games
Abstrakt: The assessment of software application usability typically relies on a predefined set of general principles known as heuristics. However, these heuristics are often used interchangeably to evaluate games across different platforms such as smartphones, tablets, and desktops, potentially leading to inconsistent or inaccurate evaluations. Hence, there is a notable absence of a standard platform-centric heuristics to evaluate games for a particular platform. In this paper, we address this gap by developing 144 smartphone game heuristics (SmGH), spanning across six categories and accounting for technical, non-technical, and gameplay aspects. Further, we compared our proposed SmGH with four mobile game heuristics published in the literature. The aim of the comparison was to identify the overlaps and differences between SmGH and the existing heuristics in mobile game literature. Lastly, we conducted a preliminarily assessment of the utility of SmGH using gameplay analysis of 5 popular smartphone games (from 2017 to 2021, having 4.5+ average rating and 100 M + downloads) and 12 recent smartphone games (released in 2022). We obtained two important findings. First, there is a limited overlap among various mobile game heuristics in the literature. The first finding highlights an important takeaway to establish a standard set of platform-specific heuristics in both game user research and the industry. Second, popular games tend to incorporate a larger proportion of heuristics compared to recently released games. The second finding provide insights into the number and distribution of heuristics across all six categories within smartphone games, which will be beneficial for future evaluations of new and unseen games using SmGH. The second finding also suggest that adherence to platform-centric game heuristics may contribute to a game's popularity on a particular platform and could be a factor considered by game developers. This work contributes to the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and smartphone games by advancing our understanding and application of platform-centric game heuristics and highlights the significance of SmGH as a standard and reliable set of heuristics in the design and evaluation of smartphone games. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstrakt:The assessment of software application usability typically relies on a predefined set of general principles known as heuristics. However, these heuristics are often used interchangeably to evaluate games across different platforms such as smartphones, tablets, and desktops, potentially leading to inconsistent or inaccurate evaluations. Hence, there is a notable absence of a standard platform-centric heuristics to evaluate games for a particular platform. In this paper, we address this gap by developing 144 smartphone game heuristics (SmGH), spanning across six categories and accounting for technical, non-technical, and gameplay aspects. Further, we compared our proposed SmGH with four mobile game heuristics published in the literature. The aim of the comparison was to identify the overlaps and differences between SmGH and the existing heuristics in mobile game literature. Lastly, we conducted a preliminarily assessment of the utility of SmGH using gameplay analysis of 5 popular smartphone games (from 2017 to 2021, having 4.5+ average rating and 100 M + downloads) and 12 recent smartphone games (released in 2022). We obtained two important findings. First, there is a limited overlap among various mobile game heuristics in the literature. The first finding highlights an important takeaway to establish a standard set of platform-specific heuristics in both game user research and the industry. Second, popular games tend to incorporate a larger proportion of heuristics compared to recently released games. The second finding provide insights into the number and distribution of heuristics across all six categories within smartphone games, which will be beneficial for future evaluations of new and unseen games using SmGH. The second finding also suggest that adherence to platform-centric game heuristics may contribute to a game's popularity on a particular platform and could be a factor considered by game developers. This work contributes to the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and smartphone games by advancing our understanding and application of platform-centric game heuristics and highlights the significance of SmGH as a standard and reliable set of heuristics in the design and evaluation of smartphone games. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:10447318
DOI:10.1080/10447318.2024.2356911