Exploring social interactions and attributes of casual multiplayer mobile gaming

Mobility Conference 2007 - The 4th Int. Conf. Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, Mobility 2007, Incorporating the 1st Int. Symp. Computer Human Interaction in Mobile Technology, IS-CHI 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 696-703

  Li, Kevin A ^a   Counts, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

H5.m. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI): Miscellaneous; K.8.0. Personal Computing games

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TEASERS; H5.M. INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (E.G., HCI): MISCELLANEOUS; INFORMATION INTERFACES; MOBILE GAMING; MULTIPLAYERS; NEW DIRECTIONS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; TEAM CONFIGURATION;

COMPETITION; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTING; TECHNOLOGY; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 77952220484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1378063.1378181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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