摘要：Usability guidelines is an important factor in designing and developing of successful user interfaces, and also the most widely used principle in the field of software engineering that defines the application’s demand and usage. Due to this reason, there are strong demands to conduct a study that focuses in developing new usability guidelines to design user interfaces of mobile game applications for children. Therefore, this study aimed at exploring the usability guidelines and investigating the importance of these guidelines in designing the user interfaces for mobile game application to be used among 1 to 3 years old children. As a result, a total number of 87 guidelines in which categorized into 17 usability characteristics were found highly associated in designing usable user interfaces for mobile game applications for these categories of users. This research effort has been in a position to derive a preliminary specification and scheme specifically for designing usable interfaces as well as developing mobile game applications from the perspective of children aged 1 to 3 years old.
关键词：Usability; mobile game applications; user interface; children.
