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What Moves Players?: Visual Data Exploration of Twitter and Gameplay Data

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Christian Drescher,

Guenter Wallner,

Simone Kriglstein,

Anders Drachen,

Margit PohlAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper No.: 560, Pages 1 - 13

https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174134

Published: 21 April 2018 Publication History

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In recent years, microblogging platforms have not only become an important communication channel for the game industry to generate and uphold audience interest but also a rich resource for gauging player opinion. In this paper we use data gathered from Twitter to examine which topics matter to players and to identify influential members of a game's community. By triangulating in-game data with Twitter activity we explore how tweets can provide contextual information for understanding fluctuations in in-game activity. To facilitate analysis of the data we introduce a visual data exploration tool and use it to analyze tweets related to the game Destiny. In total, we collected over one million tweets from about 250,000 users over a 14-month period and gameplay data from roughly 3,500 players over a six-month period.

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What Moves Players?: Visual Data Exploration of Twitter and Gameplay Data
1. Applied computing
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    1. Personal computers and PC applications
2. Human-centered computing

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