Building common ground and reciprocity through social network games

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4423-4428

  Wohn, D Yvette ^a   Lee, Yu Hao ^a   Sung, Jieun ^a   Bjornrud, Torger ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchronous; Avatar customization; Common ground; Customization; Game motivations; Gifting; Online game; Reciprocity; Social computing; Social network game; Social network site; Space customization; Uses and gratifications; Virtual goods

Indexed keywords

COMMON GROUND; GAME MOTIVATIONS; ON-LINE GAMES; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; USES AND GRATIFICATIONS; VIRTUAL GOODS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOTIVATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 77953104661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753846.1754164     Document Type: Conference Paper

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