Usability and learnability improvements for the TaleBlazer game editor

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Hung, Jacqueline
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Intuitive and functional design for the TaleBlazer game editor
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Eric Klopfer.
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Abstract
TaleBlazer is a platform for creating and playing location-based augmented-reality games. The TaleBlazer web-based editor allows users to build customized games using a blocks-based programming language. In order to allow more user groups to utilize various features offered by TaleBlazer, building an intuitive editor user interface is especially essential to maximizing usability and learnability. This thesis presents a new version of the editor with improved front-end design and a new tutorials system. The updated implementation is intuitive, powerful, and user-friendly for both novice and experienced TaleBlazer users.
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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.
 
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
 
Title as it appears in MIT Commencement Exercises program, June 5, 2015: An intuitive and functional design for the TaleBlazer game editor. Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
 
Includes bibliographical references (page 77).
 
Date issued
2015
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100603
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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