Using player type models for personalized game design - An empirical investigation

Interaction Design and Architecture(s)

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 145-163

  Busch, Marc ^a   Mattheiss, Elke ^a   Hochleitner, Wolfgang ^b   Hochleitner, Christina ^a   Lankes, Michael ^b   Fröhlich, Peter ^a   Orji, Rita ^c   Tscheligi, Manfred ^a,d  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Games; Personalization; Player type models; Player types

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994245986     PISSN: 18269745     EISSN: 22832998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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