Through the Azerothian looking glass: Mapping in-game preferences to real world demographics

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2811-2814

  Yee, Nick ^a   Ducheneaut, Nicolas ^a   Shiao, Han Tai ^b   Nelson, Les ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamification; In game behaviors; Player demographics

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC DATA; GAMIFICATION; IN-GAME BEHAVIORS; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; PLAYER DEMOGRAPHICS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84862080660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208683     Document Type: Conference Paper

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