Online gaming motivations scale: Development and validation

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2803-2806

  Yee, Nick ^a   Ducheneaut, Nicolas ^a   Nelson, Les ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Online games; Player motivations; Scale development; Scale validation; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CROSS-CULTURAL; HONG-KONG; ON-LINE GAMES; ON-LINE GAMING; SCALE DEVELOPMENT; SCALE VALIDATION;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; TAXONOMIES;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 84862104181     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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