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UPA Publications
UX - User Experience Magazine
A
quarterly magazine by and about usability professionals, featuring significant
and unique articles dealing with the broad field of usability and the
user experience. UX magazine home
page and past issues.
Gamifying the User Experience
Volume 10, Issue 4
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Play Your Way to Productivity: Using Game Design to Achieve "Flow", Aye Moah
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Social Games with Words: A Short History of Implementations, Andrea Jennifer Shubert
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Electric Racer to Promote Literacy: A Game for Two Inter-generational Players, Ashley Fenwick-Naditch and Mindy Brooks
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Designing Games for Non-Gamers: Rapid Prototyping as a Design Methodology, Dennis Paiz-Ramirez, Sarah Chu, Allison Salmon, and Belinda Gutierrez
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Multi-Screen Games and Beyond: New Dimensions in User Interaction, Chris Allen
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Simplifying Game Interfaces: Principles for Hiding UI Complexity, Adam Saltsman
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Using Biometrics to Reveal Insights into the Player Experience, Graham McAllister
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Games in the Real World: Some Characteristics We Can Use, John Ferrara
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Playing to Learn: Teaching User Research to Game Design Students, Heather Desurvire
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Looking to Games for the New User Experience: What Other Website Interfaces Can Learn, Pascal Rettig
The UPA Voice
A
bi-monthly newsletter with articles for usability practitioners and news
about UPA activities
Voice home page
Current
Issue
September 2011
- The Tyranny of Change: How to Give Your Audience a Voice in Their Ever-Changing World
- Going on now: the UPA Salary Survey
- Democracy, the Internet, and the Health of the World: What's Changed?
- What Is it like to be a UPA Board of Directors Member?
- The UX Planner
- Update from World Usability Day: November 10, 2011
- Volunteering @UPA - Seven Benefits that Might Pay Off
- President's Corner: UPA International Awards 2011
Advertising in UPA Publications
UPA offers opportunities to advertise in User Experience Magazine, or sponsor other UPA publications.
For more information, please contact:
- Nicole Tafoya , Publications Manager
publications@usabilityprofessionals.org
phone: 630-980-4997
Journal of Usability Studies
A quarterly peer-reviewed, international, online publication promoting and enhancing the practice, research, and education of usability engineering. JUS home page
Current Issue
Volume 7, Issue 1 - November 2011
- Industrial HCI Research: A Personal and Professional Perspective
- Conducting Iterative Usability Testing on a Web Site: Challenges and Benefits
- Usability Evaluation of Touch-less Mouse, Based on Infrared Proximity Sensing
- Ergonomics Product Development of a Mobile Workstation for Health Care
Design for People by People
This book incudes 27 essays and represents a retrospective of the work published in UPA's Common Ground newsletter through its final March 2000 issue.
Design by People for People: Essays on Usability
- Edited by Russell J. Branaghan
Usability Professionals' Association, 2001
274 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-9702272-0-5
Available from the UPA Store
Designing the User Experience - Poster
A complete user-centered design process is laid out, using a game board metaphor with "ladders" to help you jump ahead, and "chutes" for places where a good process was not followed.
A copy of the poster is sent to all new members.