Starcraft from the stands: Understanding the game spectator

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 763-772

  Cheung, Gifford ^a   Huang, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Spectators; Starcraft; Video games

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; GAMES DESIGNERS; INFORMATION ASYMMETRY; ONLINE SOURCES; ONLINE VIDEO; REAL-TIME STRATEGY GAMES; SPECTATOR; STARCRAFT; VIDEO-GAMES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 79958173529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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