Designing multiplayer games to facilitate emergent social behaviours online

Interactive Technology and Smart Education

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 117-130

  Vogiazou, Yanna ^a   Eisenstadt, Marc ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Presence awareness; Social computing; Spontaneous group play

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992944024     PISSN: 17415659     EISSN: 17588510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17415650580000037     Document Type: Article

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