How Players value their characters in world of warcraft

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1333-1343

  Livingston, Ian J ^a   Gutwin, Carl ^b   Mandryk, Regan L ^b   Birk, Max ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avatars; Character value; Characters; World of Warcraft

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

AVATARS; CHARACTER VALUES; CHARACTERS; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS; PLAYER EXPERIENCE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; WORLD OF WARCRAFT;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84898943184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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