Entertainment is a human factor: a CHI 97 workshop on game design and HCI

E.very year, hundteds of thousands of people spend money from their own discretionary entenai.n.mcnc budg<u jusc for the opportunity to experience the user interfaces of software appfica .. tions sold as game$. Much of rhis experience iJwolves difficuJr problero so)\'ing as well as tactjcaJ and strategic re2soning :mel pcrform~nce. chat olicn exceeds the demaJlds of t}•pical t:uks ar work. Yet, &lm('S Ol.fC fim and work Of(eO is llOL Why?

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