Massive Muti-user Online Role-Playing Games or MMORPGs as they are often called are
one of the fastest growing forms of Internet addiction, especially among children and …

Digital games often constitute a shared activity where people can spend time together,
communicate and socialize. Several commercial titles place social interaction at the center …

Driven by state-of-the-art AI technologies, human-AI collaboration has become an important
area in computer-supported teamwork research. While human-AI collaboration has been …

A sociotechnical investigation of ubiquitous computing as a research enterprise and as a
lived reality. Ubiquitous computing (or ubicomp) is the label for a" third wave" of computing …

World of Warcraft rapidly became one of the most popular online world games on the planet,
amassing 11.5 million subscribers—officially making it an online community of gamers that …

From Pong to virtual reality, Understanding Video Games, 4th Edition, takes video game
studies into the next decade of the twenty-first century, highlighting changes in the area …

A study of Everquest that provides a snapshot of multiplayer gaming culture, questions the
truism that computer games are isolating and alienating, and offers insights into broader …

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have developed rapidly and become tremendously
popular because of their plentiful gamification designs, such as reputation points, rewards …

In this study, we examine the identity exploration possibilities presented by online
multiplayer games in which players use graphics tools and character-creation software to …

Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) routinely attract millions of players but little
empirical data is available to assess their players' social experiences. In this paper, we use …