"Alone together?": exploring the social dynamics of massively multiplayer online games
- Nicolas Ducheneaut, N. Yee, Eric Nickell, Robert J. Moore
- EconomicsInternational Conference on Human Factors in…
- 22 April 2006
Observations show that the prevalence and extent of social activities in MMOGs might have been previously over-estimated, and that gaming communities face important challenges affecting their cohesion and eventual longevity.
The life and death of online gaming communities: a look at guilds in world of warcraft
- Nicolas Ducheneaut, N. Yee, Eric Nickell, Robert J. Moore
- EconomicsInternational Conference on Human Factors in…
- 29 April 2007
This paper examines some of the factors that could explain the success or failure of a game guild based on more than a year of data collected from five World of Warcraft servers, focusing on structural properties of these groups, as represented by their social networks and other variables.
Taming Google-Scale Continuous Testing
- A. Memon, Zebao Gao, John Micco
- Computer ScienceIEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on…
- 20 May 2017
A project that aims to reduce lag time between code check-ins and test result feedback to developers by controlling test workload without compromising quality, and distilling test results data to inform developers, while they write code, of the impact of their latest changes on quality.
Virtual “Third Places”: A Case Study of Sociability in Massively Multiplayer Games
- Nicolas Ducheneaut, Robert J. Moore, Eric Nickell
- EconomicsComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
- 1 April 2007
Georg Simmel [American Journal of Sociology 55:254–261 (1949)] is widely credited as the first scholar to have seriously examined sociability – “the sheer pleasure of the company of others” and the…
Doing Virtually Nothing: Awareness and Accountability in Massively Multiplayer Online Worlds
- Robert J. Moore, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Eric Nickell
- Computer ScienceComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
- 1 June 2007
The impact of the lack of each type of information onPlayers’ ability to tightly coordinate their activities is discussed and guidelines for improving coordination and, ultimately, the players’ social experience are offered.
Social TV: Designing for Distributed, Sociable Television Viewing
- Nicolas Ducheneaut, Robert J. Moore, L. Oehlberg, J. D. Thornton, Eric Nickell
- SociologyInternational journal of human computer…
- 11 February 2008
The initial results from a series of studies illustrating how people interact in front of a television set are described, and guidelines as well as specific features are proposed to inform the design of future “social television” prototypes.
From Tree House to Barracks
- Dmitri Williams, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Li Xiong, Yuanyuan Zhang, N. Yee, Eric Nickell
- BusinessGames Cult.
- 1 October 2006
A representative sample of players of a popular massively multiplayer online game (World of Warcraft) was interviewed to map out the social dynamics of guilds. An initial survey and network mapping…
Building an MMO With Mass Appeal
- Nicolas Ducheneaut, N. Yee, Eric Nickell, Robert J. Moore
- EconomicsGames Cult.
- 1 October 2006
How WoW functions as a game is explored with automated “bots” to illustrate how WoW refined a formula inherited from preceding MMOs, and raises questions about WoW’s future growth and more generally about the ability of MMOs to evolve beyond their familiar template.
Coordinating joint activity in avatar-mediated interaction
- Robert J. Moore, E. Gathman, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Eric Nickell
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference on Human Factors in…
- 29 April 2007
This study analyzes screen-capture video of user-to-user interaction in the game, City of Heroes, under two conditions: one with the game's standard awareness cues and the other with enhanced cues to demonstrate interactional slippages caused by the absence of awareness cues.
Extreme Makeover: Bending the Rules to Reduce Risk Rewriting Complex Systems
- Sharon Johnson, Jia Mao, Eric Nickell, I. Smith
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference on Agile Software…
- 25 May 2003
The experience of using XP to reimplement sophisticated, high-performance imaging software in a research environment suggests that some of the classic 12 practices which define XP should be adjusted when there is a existing, well-structured system to serve as a guide.
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