Feature-based projections for effective playtrace analysis

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 69-76

  Liu, Yun En ^a   Andersen, Erik ^a   Snider, Richard ^a   Cooper, Seth ^a   Popović, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Game design; Games; Visual data mining

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS STATE SPACE; DISCRETE STATE SPACE; FEATURE-BASED; GAME DESIGN; GAME DESIGNERS; GAMES; MEDIUM COMPLEXITY; PLAY ANALYSIS; PLAYER BEHAVIOR; STATE FEATURE; STATE SPACE; VISUAL DATA MINING;

DATA MINING; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84858968982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2159365.2159375     Document Type: Conference Paper

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