Immersidata Management and Analysis For Game Development and Assessment For Staying There

New and emerging interactive digital media present many new challenges to human-computer interaction (HCI). With digital media designed to captivate user’s attention through stimulating experience and so encourage them in staying there engaged in pursuing activities, one of the main challenges is to devise effective and appropriate evaluation and development approaches that don’t disrupt the user. While standard evaluation methods can provide insightful information that can be used to inform development, a range of limitations have been identified. In this paper we describe the seamless capture and management of data that represents user’s interchanges with interactive digital media. Next we describe two complementary tools that we have developed to help analyze and interpret these interchanges and help us to understand user’s experience and behavior to inform development throughout phases of the life cycle. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approaches through their application to an educational serious game. Categories & Subject Descriptors H5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces Evaluation/Methodology; H3.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Information Search and Retrieval