What we have here is a failure of companionship: Communication in goal-oriented team-mate games

Proceedings of the 23rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 198-201

  McGee, Kevin ^a   Merritt, Tim ^a   Ong, Christopher ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

co presence; communication; companionship; multiplayer games; team mate games; team mates

Indexed keywords

CO-PRESENCE; COMPANIONSHIP; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; TEAM-MATE GAMES; TEAM-MATES;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); GAME THEORY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84863510982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2071536.2071568     Document Type: Conference Paper

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