Project massive: Self-regulation and problematic use of online gaming

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 829-838

  Seay, A Fleming ^a   Kraut, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Depression; MMORPG; Online games; Play motivation; Self regulation; Social integration

Indexed keywords

PLAY MOTIVATION; SELF-REGULATION; SOCIAL INTEGRATION;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; GAME THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 35348848572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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