Using an international gaming tournament to study individual differences in MOBA expertise and cognitive skills

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 3473-3484

  Bonny, Justin W ^a   Castaneda, Lisa M ^a   Swanson, Tom ^a  

^a foundry10   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive skills; Gaming expertise; Individual differences; MOBA; Spatial memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; LOCATION;

COGNITIVE SKILL; GAMING EXPERTISE; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; MOBA; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84992116744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2858036.2858190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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