Fanboys, competers, escapists and time-killers: A typology based on Gamers'Motivations for playing video games

Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts, DIMEA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 46-50

  Schuurman, Dimitri ^a   De Moor, Katrien ^a   Van Looy, Jan ^a   De Marez, Lieven ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Game motivations; Gamer typology; Video games

Indexed keywords

MOTIVATION;

GAME MOTIVATIONS; GAMER TYPOLOGY; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; LITTLE RESEARCHES; ON-LINE SURVEYS; VIDEO GAMES;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 62849125011     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1413634.1413647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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