Designing for the user experience of sociability in Massively Multiplayer Online Games

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 879-882

  Christou, Georgios ^a   Zaphiris, Panayiotis ^b   Ang, Chee Siang ^c   Law, Effie Lai Chong ^d  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Design; Massively multiplayer online games; Online community; Social networks; User game experience

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

DESIGN FAILURES; GAME EXPERIENCE; INHERENT SOCIABILITIES; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ON-LINE GAMES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORK; USER/GAME EXPERIENCE; USERS' EXPERIENCES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79957937626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1979742.1979544     Document Type: Conference Paper

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