A tribute to mad skill: Expert amateur visuality and World of Warcraft machinima

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2019-2028

  Pace, Tyler ^a   Toombs, Austin ^a   Gross, Shad ^a   Pattin, Tony ^a   Bardzell, Jeffrey ^a   Bardzell, Shaowen ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Expert amateurs; Machinima; Visuality

Indexed keywords

CREATIVITY; CREATIVITY SUPPORT TOOLS; EXPERT AMATEURS; MACHINIMA; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; VISUAL SKILLS; VISUALITY; WORLD OF WARCRAFT;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84877949525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466267     Document Type: Conference Paper

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