“Visualizing and Understanding Players’ Behavior in Video Games: Discovering Patterns and Supporting Aggregation and Comparison” by Moura, El-Nasr and Shaw

Conference:

• SIGGRAPH 2011
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Type(s):

• Games

Title:

Visualizing and Understanding Players’ Behavior in Video Games: Discovering Patterns and Supporting Aggregation and Comparison

Developer(s):

• Dinara Moura
• Magy Seif El-Nasr
• Christopher D. Shaw

Description:

There is a growing need for procedures that can support analysis and understanding of players’ behaviors within game environments. This paper proposes a system that allows analysts to build and compare visualizations of clusters of players to better understand the causes and effects of players’ actions.

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