Blissfully productive: Grouping and cooperation in world of warcraft instance runs

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 357-360

  Bardzell, Shaowen ^a   Bardzell, Jeffrey ^a   Pace, Tyler ^a   Reed, Kayce ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Instances; Leadership; MMOG; MMORPG; Small groups; World of Warcraft

Indexed keywords

ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS; LOG ANALYSIS; SMALL GROUPS; THREE-LEVEL MODELS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 77950853745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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