Extraversion and computer game play: Who plays what games?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6764 LNCS, Issue PART 4, 2011, Pages 659-667

  Fang, Xiaowen ^a   Zhu, Miaoqi ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

computer games; enjoyment; Extraversion; personality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAME; ENJOYMENT; EXTRAVERSION; GAME DESIGNERS; INTERACTION DESIGN; ONLINE SURVEYS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TRAITS; PRELIMINARY DATA; RESEARCH GROUPS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 79960300108     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21619-0_78     Document Type: Conference Paper

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