Enjoyment or engagement? Role of social interaction in playing Massively Militplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGS)

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4161 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 262-267

  Chen, Vivian Hsueh Hua ^a   Duh, Henry Been Lirn ^b   Phuah, Priscilla Siew Koon ^a   Lam, Diana Zi Yan ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Engagement; Enjoyment; MMORPG

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

MASSIVELY MILITPLAYER ONLINE ROLE-PLAYING GAMES (MMORPGS); NON-ENGAGED GAMERS; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 33750058834     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11872320_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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