TY - GEN
T1 - Come meet me at Ulduar
T2 - ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW'12
AU - Bardzell, Jeffrey
AU - Nichols, Jeffrey
AU - Pace, Tyler
AU - Bardzell, Shaowen
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In spite of decades of research on virtual worlds, our understanding of one popular form of virtual world behavior - raiding - remains limited. Raiding is important because it entails intense, high-risk, and complex collaborative behaviors in computer-mediated environments. This paper contributes to CSCW literature by offering a longitudinal analysis of raiding behavior using system data manually collected from the game world itself, comparing two raiding teams as they worked through the same content. Supplemented with interviews and chat transcripts, this research sheds light on what actually happens during raids across four different temporal scales: seconds, hours, days, and months. It also distinguishes between behaviors that are imposed by the system design and those chosen by players. Finally, it derives two viable raiding styles from the data.
AB - In spite of decades of research on virtual worlds, our understanding of one popular form of virtual world behavior - raiding - remains limited. Raiding is important because it entails intense, high-risk, and complex collaborative behaviors in computer-mediated environments. This paper contributes to CSCW literature by offering a longitudinal analysis of raiding behavior using system data manually collected from the game world itself, comparing two raiding teams as they worked through the same content. Supplemented with interviews and chat transcripts, this research sheds light on what actually happens during raids across four different temporal scales: seconds, hours, days, and months. It also distinguishes between behaviors that are imposed by the system design and those chosen by players. Finally, it derives two viable raiding styles from the data.
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U2 - 10.1145/2145204.2145296
DO - 10.1145/2145204.2145296
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84858208089
SN - 9781450310864
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 603
EP - 612
BT - CSCW'12 - Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Y2 - 11 February 2012 through 15 February 2012
ER -