Typology and Sociodemographic Characteristics of Massively Multiplayer Online Game Players

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 192-200

  Nagygyörgy, Katalin ^a   Urbán, Róbert ^a   Farkas, Judit ^a   Griffiths, Mark D ^b   Zilahy, Dalma ^a   Kökönyei, Gyöngyi ^a   Mervó, Barbara ^a   Reindl, Antónia ^a   Ágoston, Csilla ^a   Kertész, Andrea ^a   Harmath, Eszter ^a   Oláh, Attila ^a   Demetrovics, Zsolt ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST PERSON SHOOTER; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; PROFESSIONAL LEVELS; REAL TIME STRATEGIES; REAL-TIME STRATEGY GAMES; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

INTERNET;

EID: 84873117023     PISSN: 10447318     EISSN: 15327590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2012.702636     Document Type: Article

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