Player dossiers: Analyzing gameplay data as a reward

Game Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Medler, Ben ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievements; Archiving; Data mining; Game analytics; Gameplay; Information visualization; Player dossier; Social networks; User profiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951930946     PISSN: 16047982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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