Sa’adah Hassan

Excessive and addictive gaming control using counselling agent in online game design

In recent times, online game play has become a food for thought to concerned individuals, researchers and authorities of various countries due to its excessive and addictive usage. Although, various government have taken certain measures such as shutting down internet cafe at certain hours of the day, censoring the most brutal, offensive and aggressive sections of certain games before they are released. Researchers have advised developers on ways of limiting harm on players by suggesting design changes on time limit. Furthermore, researchers have also suggested that online game distributors ought to make available appropriate referral services. The impart of the above are yet to make any remarkable impact on players. In this paper, we have proposed a Counseling Agent model integrating informative and self-appraisal messages in online game design as a control measure. Informative and self-appraisal messaging in games have proven optimistic through making positive impact on player’s thoughts and behavior towards gaming. These messages are expected to remind players about the negative impact of excessive and addictive gaming habits, as well as suggesting possible reductive solutions through message streaming.In recent times, online game play has become a food for thought to concerned individuals, researchers and authorities of various countries due to its excessive and addictive usage. Although, various government have taken certain measures such as shutting down internet cafe at certain hours of the day, censoring the most brutal, offensive and aggressive sections of certain games before they are released. Researchers have advised developers on ways of limiting harm on players by suggesting design changes on time limit. Furthermore, researchers have also suggested that online game distributors ought to make available appropriate referral services. The impart of the above are yet to make any remarkable impact on players. In this paper, we have proposed a Counseling Agent model integrating informative and self-appraisal messages in online game design as a control measure. Informative and self-appraisal messaging in games have proven optimistic through making positive impact on player’s thoughts and behavior to...

The Adoptions of USEPs in Identifying Usability Requirements in SSM-Based Framework: A Case Study

Nowadays, user demand for quality software product have been increased and developers have to make sure that their products are able to meet the user’s need in order to compete in the market. Usability, which is a kind of software quality, became an important factor to determine the success or failure of a software product in this challenging market. Unfortunately, lack of attention given to usability requirements especially during the early stage of software development process and therefore increase the cost of fixing usability problems and causes the final software products are poor in quality. Therefore, this paper aimed to identify usability requirements at the requirement stage of software development by using the SSM-based analysis framework. We have conducted a case study by applying a usability elicitation pattern, USEPs, into the framework. From the result of our study, it has shown that this pattern is useful to assist the stakeholders in identifying usability requirements along with the functionality of a system. Besides, we have also made some enhancement and extensions to the framework based on our findings from the study.