Towards world of warcraft as an experiment platform for teams

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages 3010-3023

  Dannecker, Achim ^a   Richter, Sebastian ^a   Lechner, Ulrike ^a   Dreßner, Nico ^a   Fabisch, Sebastian ^a   Ilsemann, Aenne ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experiment platform; Teams; Virtual teams; World of warcraft

Indexed keywords

TEAMS; VIRTUAL TEAM; WORLD OF WARCRAFT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84870288874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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