Evaluating Playability on Haptic User Interface for Mobile Gaming

摘要

There have been escalating research interests on areas relating to haptic modality in recent years, speedily to wards mobile devices. However, there seems to be librated studies in determining the relation between haptic user interfaces and its influence on the playability of mobile games. This paper aims to measure play ability of mobile games by comparing two different types of haptic interfaces, namely ha rd and soft keypad, for mobile gaming. The results show that the participants (N=12) scored highest in using a soft keypad (mean = 591.92, SD = 322.57) as compared to p laying games using a hard keypad mean - 471, SD = 359.29). However, this paper highlights that the majority of users p refer using the hard keypad method in virtue of greater player experience with regards to game play.