The formation of task-oriented groups: Exploring combat activities in online games

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 122-127

  Huang, Yun ^a   Zhu, Mengxiao ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Pathak, Nishith ^b   Shen, Cuihua ^c   Keegan, Brian ^a   Williams, Dmitri ^c   Contractor, Noshir ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity focus theory; Bipartite network; Group formation; Massively multiplayer online game

Indexed keywords

BIPARTITE NETWORK; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; GROUP FORMATIONS; GROUP SIZE; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; ON-LINE GAMES; TEAM COLLABORATION; TEAM PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; GAME THEORY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS;

EID: 70849103720     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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