Visualizing and understanding players' behavior in video games: Discovering patterns and supporting aggregation and comparison

Proceedings - Sandbox 2011: ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 11-15

  Moura, Dinara ^a   Seif El Nasr, Magy ^a   Shaw, Christopher D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Players' behavior; Visualization system; Visualizations

Indexed keywords

CURRENT ANALYSIS; GAME DESIGN; GAME ENVIRONMENT; PLAYERS' BEHAVIOR; TELEMETRY DATA; VIDEO GAME; VISUALIZATION SYSTEM;

DATA VISUALIZATION; DESIGN; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; VISUALIZATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 80052630640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2018556.2018559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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