Come meet me at Ulduar: Progression raiding in world of warcraft

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 603-612

  Bardzell, Jeffrey ^a   Nichols, Jeffrey ^b   Pace, Tyler ^a   Bardzell, Shaowen ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

failure; hci; raids; virtual teams; world of warcraft

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER-MEDIATED ENVIRONMENT; LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS; RAIDS; TEMPORAL SCALE; VIRTUAL TEAM; VIRTUAL WORLDS; WORLD OF WARCRAFT;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84858208089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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