Glossary

Popular Glossary Terms

• game flow

  the pace and sequence of events in a game, the range of choices in the ga…

• speed-accuracy tradeoff

  in many types of perceptual-motor tasks, there is a tradeoff between…

• alert box

  a dialog box, generally modal, that appears to alert the user to impor…

• fail-safe

  a property of a device or system that inherently prevents certain fai…

• gameplay

  the style and experience of interaction in a game; the phenomenologi…

• declarative graphics system

  software system to support the drawing of graphics through specifyi…

• context-sensitive help

  helpful information available within a task that is specific to the c…

• snapping / gravity

  a graphics input technique – when people draw or drag objects n…