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13 - Profiling in Games: Understanding Behavior from Telemetry

from Part IV - Techniques for Analyzing Game Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2018

By
Rafet Sifa ,
Anders Drachen  and
Christian Bauckhage
Edited by
Kiran Lakkaraju ,
Gita Sukthankar  and
Rolf T. Wigand
Kiran Lakkaraju
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Gita Sukthankar
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida
Rolf T. Wigand
Affiliation:
University of Arkansas
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Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
 , pp. 337 - 374
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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