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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Visual Exploration of Virtual Lives in Multiplayer Online Games

Authors : Zhiqi Liu, Yandi Shen, Junhua Lu, Dingke Kong, Yinyin Chen, Jingxuan He, Shu Liu, Ye Qi, Wei Chen

Published in: E-Learning and Games

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Analyzing the user behavior of multiplayer online games can help understand the sociality and characteristics of players in the virtual world. The primary task is to characterize the game life and its evolution within the game. We propose a novel network-based representation, EvolutionLine Graph, that illustrates the evolving behavior of massive game players as a sequence of time-oriented transitions among various status. We design and implement a novel visual analytics system, GameLifeVis, that supports the visualization, exploration, and analysis of multi-level user behaviors in an integrated visual interface. We exemplify the efficiency of our approach with case studies on a multi-faceted dataset collected within a popular online game (15 million players) in 18 months.

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Metadata
Title
Visual Exploration of Virtual Lives in Multiplayer Online Games
Authors
Zhiqi Liu
Yandi Shen
Junhua Lu
Dingke Kong
Yinyin Chen
Jingxuan He
Shu Liu
Ye Qi
Wei Chen
Copyright Year
2016
Book
E-Learning and Games

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-40258-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-40259-8

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40259-8_1

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