Abstract
Team collaboration in multi-player online games provides opportunities for players to interact with each other. Facilitating teams has become one of the main design principles to increase social activities. However, there is no research evidence that collaborating on tasks in game teams can produce the desired relational outcome. This paper examines more than half a million solo and team activities during a week in Dragon Nest, an MMO game. We measure the degree of team engagement using the percentage of time played in teams and the percentage of play with repeated teammates, and we then identify different types of players using this. The results show that solo players and team players are two distinct populations and they are highly predictable based on players' in-game status. Moreover, we find that spending more time in teams does not always lead to more social interactions. The interviews with players are conducted to validate the findings.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | CSCW 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work |
| Pages | 399-408 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 18 2013 |
| Event | 2013 2nd ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2013 - San Antonio, TX, United States Duration: Feb 23 2013 → Feb 27 2013 |
Other
| Other | 2013 2nd ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2013 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | San Antonio, TX |
| Period | 2/23/13 → 2/27/13 |
Keywords
- MMORPG
- Network sociality
- Online games
- Solo player
- Team collaboration
- Team engagement
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Networks and Communications