An exploratory study of player performance, motivation, and enjoyment in massively multiplayer online role-playing games

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 135-140

  Shim, Kyong Jin ^a   Srivastava, Jaideep ^a   Hsu, Kuo Wei ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Enjoyment; Massively multiplayer online games; Motivation; Player performance; Video games

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; ENJOYMENT; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; FLOW THEORIES; GAME INDUSTRY; GAME LOG; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER; OPERATIONAL DATA; PLAYER PERFORMANCE; ROLE-PLAYING GAME; SONY ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT; TASK DIFFICULTY; VIDEO GAME;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERNET; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84856200337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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