What online gamers really think of the internet?

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, NetGames 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 185-193

  Oliveira, Manuel ^a   Henderson, Tristan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES; BEST EFFORT SERVICES; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE; STRINGENT REQUIREMENT; WORLD WIDE WEBS (WWW);

WEB BROWSERS;

EID: 84999523157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/963900.963918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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