Character sharing in World of Warcraft

ECSCW 2009 - Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 343-362

  Wong, Nelson ^a   Tang, Anthony ^b   Livingston, Ian ^a   Gutwin, Carl ^a   Mandryk, Regan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; LARGE SCALE SURVEYS; ON-LINE GAMES; ONLINE IDENTITY; WORLD OF WARCRAFT;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84858216976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84882-854-4_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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