“Studying Esports Competition: Piloting Methodology for User Studies During Tournaments” by Madhusudan, Spjut, Boudaoud, Kim and Watson
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- Studying Esports Competition: Piloting Methodology for User Studies During Tournaments
Session/Category Title: The Sporting Life
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In this talk, we discuss an alternate experiment methodology for esports studies that involves an actual tournament structure. Any research around esports can vastly benefit from including competitive and PvP motivations in player studies. We also discuss one such tournament-experiment that we conducted in the SIGGRAPH 2023 Labs.
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