The gamer experience: Investigating relationships between culture and usability in massively multiplayer online games

Computers in Entertainment

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Zaharias, Panagiotis ^a   Papargyris, Anthony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Culture; Massively multiplayer online games; Usability

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS; CULTURAL DIMENSIONS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURE; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; ON-LINE GAMING; USABILITY; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 67949107902     PISSN: 15443574     EISSN: 15443981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1541895.1541906     Document Type: Article

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