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DIGRA
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Is Electronic Community an Addictive Substance?
In this study, we examine how online games, like the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) EverQuest, are represented and controlled through media rhetoric. We l...
Florence Chee, Richard Smith
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
The usability of massively multiplayer online roleplaying games: designing for new users
This study examines the usability challenges faced by new players of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), one of the fastest-growing segments of the video ga...
Steve Cornett
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Designing games to motivate physical activity
Engagement with computer games causes children and adolescent users to spend a substantial amount of time at sedentary game playing activity. We hypothesise that this engagement c...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Dipak Bhandari, Stephen Kimani, ...
WD
2010
13 years 8 months ago
QoE estimation of a location-based mobile game using on-body sensors and QoS-related data
The scope of this paper is the interdisciplinary measurement and modeling methodology of Quality of Experience (QoE) when playing a mobile location-based massively multiplayer onli...
Adrian Juan Verdejo, Katrien De Moor, Istvan Ketyk...
HICSS
2011
IEEE
182views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2011»
13 years 2 months ago
The "S" in Social Network Games: Initiating, Maintaining, and Enhancing Relationships
Social network games embedded within social network sites (SNSs) such as Facebook facilitate play with “Friends” within the SNS. In this study, we look at different dimensions...
Donghee Yvette Wohn, Cliff Lampe, Rick Wash, Nicol...