Can an ore catch a cab in stormwind? Cybertype preference in the world of warcraft character creation interface

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2493-2501

  Pace, Tyler ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avatar; Cultural interface; Cybertype; MMORPG; Transcode; Virtual word

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; ORES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AVATAR; CULTURAL INTERFACE; CYBERTYPE; MMORPG; TRANSCODE; VIRTUAL WORD;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 57149087105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1358628.1358706     Document Type: Conference Paper

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