The social behaviors of experts in massive multiplayer online role-playing games

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 326-331

  Huffaker, David ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Treem, Jeffrey ^a   Fullerton, Lindsay ^a   Poole, Marshall Scott ^b   Ahmad, Muhammad A ^c   Williams, Dmitri ^d   Contractor, Noshir ^e  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication systems; Games; Networks; Social factors

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; EXPONENTIAL RANDOM GRAPH MODEL; GAMES; MULTIPLAYERS; ROLE-PLAYING GAME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL FACTOR; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 70849096905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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