A deeper look at the use of telemetry for analysis of player behavior in RTS Games

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

Volumn 6972 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 247-257

  Gagné, André R ^a   El Nasr, Magy Seif ^a   Shaw, Chris D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Telemetry; Video Game; Visualization

Indexed keywords

PLAYER BEHAVIOR; REAL-TIME STRATEGY GAMES; TELEMETRY DATA; VIDEO GAME; VISUALIZATION SYSTEM; FREE TO PLAYS; MICRO LEVEL;

DESIGN; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; TELEMETERING; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT; VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 82055178435     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24500-8_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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