Game format effects on communication in multi-player games

ACM Future Play 2008 International Academic Conference on the Future of Game Design and Technology, Future Play: Research, Play, Share

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 113-120

  Tychsen, Anders ^a   Smith, Jonas Heide ^b  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Danish Film Institute   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Characters; Communication; Experimentation; Human factors; Interaction; Online communication; Personality; Player behavior; Role playing games

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERS; EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN FACTORS; INTERACTION; ONLINE COMMUNICATION; PERSONALITY; PLAYER BEHAVIOR; ROLE PLAYING GAMES;

COMMUNICATION; EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70349323081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1496984.1497003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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