Understanding playtest data through visual data mining in interactive 3D environments

Proceedings of CGAMES 2008 - 12th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational and Serious Games

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 57-64

  Dixit, Priyesh N ^a   Youngblood, G Michael ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Game environments; Interactive data mining; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER GAMES; FLOW VISUALIZATION;

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING; BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; EMERGENT BEHAVIORS; GAME ENVIRONMENT; INTERACTIVE DATA MINING; VISUAL DATA MINING; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84906976224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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