Anders Drachen

According to our database, Anders Drachen authored at least 136 papers between 2005 and 2024.

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2024

Artificial Intelligence in MOBA Games: A Multivocal Literature Mapping.

Lincoln Magalhães Costa, Anders Drachen, Francisco Carlos Monteiro Souza, Geraldo Xexéo

IEEE Trans. Games, June, 2024

From Passive Viewer to Active Fan: Towards the Design and Large-Scale Evaluation of Interactive Audience Experiences in Esports and Beyond.

Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Alistair Coates, Florian Block, Anders Drachen, James Alfred Walker, James Dean, Mark Mcconachie, Peter York

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, 2024

Applying and Visualising Complex Models in Esport Broadcast Coverage.

Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Florian Block, James Alfred Walker, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, 2024

Visualization of Player Movement Patterns with Line Integral Convolution and Alpha Shapes.

Guenter Wallner, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2024

Exploratory Bandit Experiments with "Starter Packs" in a Free-to-Play Mobile Game.

Julian Runge, Anders Drachen, William Grosso

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2024

User Experience Research and Design in Video Games.

Lennart E. Nacke, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

2023

An automated approach to estimate player experience in game events from psychophysiological data.

Elton Sarmanho Siqueira, Marcos Cordeiro Fleury, Marcus Vinicius Lamar, Anders Drachen, Carla Denise Castanho, Ricardo Pezzuol Jacobi

Multim. Tools Appl., May, 2023

The Many Faces of Monetisation: Understanding the Diversity and Extremity of Player Spending in Mobile Games via Massive-scale Transactional Analysis.

David Zendle, Catherine Flick, Sebastian Deterding, Joe Cutting, Elena Gordon-Petrovskaya, Anders Drachen

Games Res. Pract., 2023

Beyond the Game: Charting the Future of Game Data Science.

Günter Wallner, Anders Drachen

Games Res. Pract., 2023

Beyond the Meta: Leveraging Game Design Parameters for Patch-Agnostic Esport Analytics.

Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Florian Block, James Alfred Walker, Anders Drachen

CoRR, 2023

User Experience Design and Research in Games.

Lennart E. Nacke, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

Beyond the Meta: Leveraging Game Design Parameters for Patch-Agnostic Esport Analitics.

Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Florian Block, James Alfred Walker, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2023

2022

Communication Sequences Indicate Team Cohesion: A Mixed-Methods Study of Ad Hoc League of Legends Teams.

Evelyn T. S. Tan, Katja Rogers, Lennart E. Nacke, Anders Drachen, Alex R. Wade

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2022

Impact of Social Distancing on Face To Face Meetups for Software Practitioners during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Claire Ingram, Anders Drachen

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2022

Esports meets human-computer interaction.

Simone Kriglstein, Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken, Josef B. Spjut, Nicole B. Damen, Selen Türkay, Anders Drachen

Interactions, 2022

DOTA 2 match prediction through deep learning team fight models.

Cheng Hao Ke, Haozhang Deng, Congda Xu, Jiong Li, Xingyun Gu, Borchuluun Yadamsuren, Diego Klabjan, Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen, Simon Demediuk

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, CoG 2022, Beijing, 2022

Anomaly Detection in Player Performances in Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Games.

Xin Qian, Rafet Sifa, Xuefei Liu, Shreyashi Ganguly, Borchuluun Yadamsuren, Diego Klabjan, Anders Drachen, Simon Demediuk

Proceedings of the ACSW 2022: Australasian Computer Science Week 2022, Brisbane, Australia, February 14, 2022

2021

Win Prediction in Multiplayer Esports: Live Professional Match Prediction.

Victoria J. Hodge, Sam Devlin, Nick Sephton, Florian Block, Peter I. Cowling, Anders Drachen

IEEE Trans. Games, 2021

Approximating Attributed Incentive Salience In Large Scale Scenarios. A Representation Learning Approach Based on Artificial Neural Networks.

Valerio Bonometti, Mathieu J. Ruiz, Anders Drachen, Alex R. Wade

CoRR, 2021

Wait, But Why?: Assessing Behavior Explanation Strategies for Real-Time Strategy Games.

Justus Robertson, Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis, Jonathan Hook, Ben Kirman, Florian Block, Marian Florin Ursu, Sagarika Patra, Simon Demediuk, Anders Drachen, Oluseyi Olarewaju

Proceedings of the IUI '21: 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2021

Less is More: Analysing Communication in Teams of Strangers.

Evelyn T. S. Tan, Alex R. Wade, Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis, Georgia Heyes, Simon Demediuk, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2021

What Are You Looking At? Team Fight Prediction Through Player Camera.

Marko Tot, Michelangelo Conserva, Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis, Sagarika Patra, Simon Demediuk, Alvaro Caceres Munoz, Oluseyi Olarewaju, Marian Ursu, Ben Kirman, Jonathan Hook, Florian Block, Anders Drachen, Diego Pérez-Liébana

Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2021

Special Interest Group: The Present and Future of Esports in HCI.

Simone Kriglstein, Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken, Laia Turmo Vidal, Madison Klarkowski, Katja Rogers, Selen Turkay, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Elena Márquez Segura, Anders Drachen, Perttu Hämäläinen

Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

Archetypal Analysis Based Anomaly Detection for Improved Storytelling in Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Games.

Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen, Florian Block, Spencer Moon, Anisha Dubhashi, Hao Xiao, Zili Li, Diego Klabjan, Simon Demediuk

Proceedings of the ACSW '21: 2021 Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, 2021

2020

From Theory to Behaviour: Towards a General Model of Engagement.

Valerio Bonometti, Charles Ringer, Mathieu J. Ruiz, Alex R. Wade, Anders Drachen

CoRR, 2020

DAX: Data-Driven Audience Experiences in Esports.

Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis, Simon Demediuk, Isabelle Nölle, Oluseyi Olarewaju, Sagarika Patra, Justus Robertson, Peter York, Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Alistair Coates, Daniel Slawson, Peter Hughes, Nicolas Hardie, Ben Kirman, Jonathan Hook, Anders Drachen, Marian Florin Ursu, Florian Block

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences. IMX 2020, 2020

Retention Prediction in Sandbox Games with Bipartite Tensor Factorization.

Rafet Sifa, Michael Fedell, Nathan Franklin, Diego Klabjan, Shiva Ram, Arpan Venugopal, Simon Demediuk, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Intelligent Computing, 2020

WARDS: Modelling the Worth of Vision in MOBA's.

Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis, Sagarika Patra, Simon Demediuk, Justus Robertson, Oluseyi Olarewaju, Marian Ursu, Ben Kirman, Jonathan Hook, Florian Block, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Intelligent Computing, 2020

How software practitioners use informal local meetups to share software engineering knowledge.

Claire Ingram, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the ICSE '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, 27 June, 2020

Do Influencers Influence? - Analyzing Players' Activity in an Online Multiplayer Game.

Enrica Loria, Johanna Pirker, Anders Drachen, Annapaola Marconi

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2020

2019

Inside the Group: Investigating Social Structures in Player Groups and Their Influence on Activity.

Michael Helfried Schiller, Günter Wallner, Christopher Schinnerl, Alexander Monte Calvo, Johanna Pirker, Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen

IEEE Trans. Games, 2019

Beyond the individual: Understanding social structures of an online player matchmaking website.

Günter Wallner, Christopher Schinnerl, Michael Helfried Schiller, Alexander Monte Calvo, Johanna Pirker, Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen

Entertain. Comput., 2019

The trails of Just Cause 2: spatio-temporal player profiling in open-world games.

Myat Aung, Simon Demediuk, Yuan Sun, Ye Tu, Yu Ang, Siva Nekkanti, Shantanu Raghav, Diego Klabjan, Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2019

Tweeting your Destiny: Profiling Users in the Twitter Landscape around an Online Game.

Günter Wallner, Simone Kriglstein, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2019

Time to Die: Death Prediction in Dota 2 using Deep Learning.

Adam Katona, Ryan J. Spick, Victoria J. Hodge, Simon Demediuk, Florian Block, Anders Drachen, James Alfred Walker

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2019

Modelling Early User-Game Interactions for Joint Estimation of Survival Time and Churn Probability.

Valerio Bonometti, Charles Ringer, Mark Hall, Alex R. Wade, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, 2019

Ethereum Crypto-Games: Mechanics, Prevalence, and Gambling Similarities.

Oliver James Scholten, Nathan Gerard Jayy Hughes, Sebastian Deterding, Anders Drachen, James Alfred Walker, David Zendle

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2019

User Experience (UX) Research in Games.

Lennart E. Nacke, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

Influencers in Multiplayer Online Shooters: Evidence of Social Contagion in Playtime and Social Play.

Alessandro Canossa, Ahmad Azadvar, Casper Harteveld, Anders Drachen, Sebastian Deterding

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

Role Identification for Accurate Analysis in Dota 2.

Simon Demediuk, Peter York, Anders Drachen, James Alfred Walker, Florian Block

Proceedings of the Fifteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2019

A Team Based Player Versus Player Recommender Systems Framework For Player Improvement.

Rishabh Joshi, Varun Gupta, Xinyue Li, Yue Cui, Ziwen Wang, Yaser Norouzzadeh Ravari, Diego Klabjan, Rafet Sifa, Azita Parsaeian, Anders Drachen, Simon Demediuk

Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, 2019

2018

Analyzing player networks in Destiny.

Johanna Pirker, André Rattinger, Anders Drachen, Rafet Sifa

Entertain. Comput., 2018

Online-only friends, real-life friends or strangers? Differential associations with passion and social capital in video game play.

Ryan Perry, Anders Drachen, Allison Kearney, Simone Kriglstein, Lennart E. Nacke, Rafet Sifa, Guenter Wallner, Daniel M. Johnson

Comput. Hum. Behav., 2018

Narrative Bytes: Data-Driven Content Production in Esports.

Florian Block, Victoria J. Hodge, Stephen Hobson, Nick Sephton, Sam Devlin, Marian Florin Ursu, Anders Drachen, Peter I. Cowling

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video, 2018

Social Aspects of the Game Development Process in the Global Gam Jam.

Johanna Pirker, Isabel Lesjak, Andreas Punz, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the International Conference on Game Jams, 2018

Predicting Skill Learning in a Large, Longitudinal MOBA Dataset.

Myat Aung, Valerio Bonometti, Anders Drachen, Peter I. Cowling, Athanasios Vasileios Kokkinakis, C. Yoder, Alex R. Wade

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2018

Games User Research Methods.

Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Lennart E. Nacke, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts, 2018

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

Christian Drescher, Guenter Wallner, Simone Kriglstein, Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen, Margit Pohl

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018

Like a DNA String: Sequence-Based Player Profiling in <i>Tom Clancy's The Division</i>.

Alessandro Canossa, Sasha Makarovych, Julian Togelius, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Fourteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2018

Controlling the crucible: a novel PvP recommender systems framework for <i>destiny</i>.

Rafet Sifa, Eric Pawlakos, Kevin Zhai, Sai Haran, Rohan Jha, Diego Klabjan, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, 2018

To be or not to be...social: incorporating simple social features in mobile game customer lifetime value predictions.

Anders Drachen, Mari Pastor, Aron Liu, Dylan Jack Fontaine, Yuan Chang, Julian Runge, Rafet Sifa, Diego Klabjan

Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, 2018

Player retention in league of legends: a study using survival analysis.

Simon Demediuk, Alexandra Murrin, David W. Bulger, Michael Hitchens, Anders Drachen, William L. Raffe, Marco Tamassia

Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, 2018

2017

Win Prediction in Esports: Mixed-Rank Match Prediction in Multi-player Online Battle Arena Games.

Victoria J. Hodge, Sam Devlin, Nick Sephton, Florian Block, Anders Drachen, Peter I. Cowling

CoRR, 2017

Exploration and Skill Acquisition in a Major Online Game.

Tom Stafford, Sam Devlin, Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Curiously Motivated: Profiling Curiosity with Self-Reports and Behaviour Metrics in the Game "Destiny".

Mike Schaekermann, Giovanni Ribeiro, Guenter Wallner, Simone Kriglstein, Daniel M. Johnson, Anders Drachen, Rafet Sifa, Lennart E. Nacke

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2017

Evaluating the Onboarding Phase of Free-toPlay Mobile Games: A Mixed-Method Approach.

Falko Weigert Petersen, Line Ebdrup Thomsen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2017

Predicting Victory in a Hybrid Online Competitive Game: The Case of Destiny.

Yaser Norouzzadeh Ravari, Pieter Spronck, Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Thirteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-17), 2017

eSport vs irlSport.

Christopher McCutcheon, Michael Hitchens, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, 2017

2016

Going Out of Business: Auction House Behavior in the Massively Multi-Player Online Game.

Anders Drachen, Joseph Riley, Shawna Baskin, Diego Klabjan

CoRR, 2016

Play With Me? Understanding and Measuring the Social Aspect of Casual Gaming.

Adam Alsén, Julian Runge, Anders Drachen, Daniel Klapper

CoRR, 2016

Identifying Onboarding Heuristics for Free-to-Play Mobile Games: A Mixed Methods Approach.

Line E. Thomsen, Falko Weigert Petersen, Anders Drachen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei

Proceedings of the Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2016, 2016

Integrating and Inspecting Combined Behavioral Profiling and Social Network Models in Destiny.

André Rattinger, Günter Wallner, Anders Drachen, Johanna Pirker, Rafet Sifa

Proceedings of the Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2016, 2016

How Playstyles Evolve: Progression Analysis and Profiling in Just Cause 2.

Johanna Pirker, Simone Griesmayr, Anders Drachen, Rafet Sifa

Proceedings of the Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2016, 2016

Predicting player churn in destiny: A Hidden Markov models approach to predicting player departure in a major online game.

Marco Tamassia, William L. Raffe, Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen, Fabio Zambetta, Michael Hitchens

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2016

Predicting Retention in Sandbox Games with Tensor Factorization-based Representation Learning.

Rafet Sifa, Sridev Srikanth, Anders Drachen, César Ojeda, Christian Bauckhage

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2016

Stylized facts for mobile game analytics.

Anders Drachen, Nicholas Ross, Julian Runge, Rafet Sifa

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2016

Guns and guardians: Comparative cluster analysis and behavioral profiling in destiny.

Anders Drachen, James Green, Chester Gray, Elie Harik, Patty Lu, Rafet Sifa, Diego Klabjan

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2016

Lightweight Games User Research for Indies and Non-Profit Organizations.

Lennart E. Nacke, Christiane Moser, Anders Drachen, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Andrea Abney, Zhu (Cole) Zhenyu

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016

Rapid Prediction of Player Retention in Free-to-Play Mobile Games.

Anders Drachen, Eric Thurston Lundquist, Yungjen Kung, Pranav Simha Rao, Rafet Sifa, Julian Runge, Diego Klabjan

Proceedings of the Twelfth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2016

2015

Behavioral Telemetry in Games User Research.

Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Game User Experience Evaluation, 2015

The Age of Analytics.

Christian Bauckhage, Anders Drachen, Christian Thurau

IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games, 2015

Clustering Game Behavior Data.

Christian Bauckhage, Anders Drachen, Rafet Sifa

IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games, 2015

Predicting Purchase Decisions in Mobile Free-to-Play Games.

Rafet Sifa, Fabian Hadiji, Julian Runge, Anders Drachen, Kristian Kersting, Christian Bauckhage

Proceedings of the Eleventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2015

Large-Scale Cross-Game Player Behavior Analysis on Steam.

Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen, Christian Bauckhage

Proceedings of the Eleventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2015

2014

The name in the game: Patterns in character names and gamer tags.

Anders Drachen, Rafet Sifa, Christian Thurau

Entertain. Comput., 2014

Going out of business: Auction house behavior in the Massively Multi-player Online Game Glitch.

Anders Drachen, Joseph Riley, Shawna Baskin, Diego Klabjan

Entertain. Comput., 2014

Archetypal Game Recommender Systems.

Rafet Sifa, Christian Bauckhage, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the 16th LWA Workshops: KDML, 2014

Skill-based differences in spatio-temporal team behaviour in defence of the Ancients 2 (DotA 2).

Anders Drachen, Matthew Yancey, John Maguire, Derrek Chu, Iris Yuhui Wang, Tobias Mahlmann, Matthias Schubert, Diego Klabjan

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Games Media Entertainment, 2014

The Playtime Principle: Large-scale cross-games interest modeling.

Rafet Sifa, Christian Bauckhage, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2014

Predicting player churn in the wild.

Fabian Hadiji, Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen, Christian Thurau, Kristian Kersting, Christian Bauckhage

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2014

Beyond heatmaps: Spatio-temporal clustering using behavior-based partitioning of game levels.

Christian Bauckhage, Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen, Christian Thurau, Fabian Hadiji

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2014

2013

Patterns in the distribution of digital games via BitTorrent.

Anders Drachen, Robert W. D. Veitch

Int. J. Adv. Media Commun., 2013

Game Analytics for Game User Research, Part 1: A Workshop Review and Case Study.

Magy Seif El-Nasr, Heather Desurvire, Bardia Aghabeigi, Anders Drachen

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2013

A comparison of methods for player clustering via behavioral telemetry.

Anders Drachen, Christian Thurau, Rafet Sifa, Christian Bauckhage

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2013

Behavior evolution in Tomb Raider Underworld.

Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen, Christian Bauckhage, Christian Thurau, Alessandro Canossa

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Inteligence in Games (CIG), 2013

Spatial game analytics and visualization.

Anders Drachen, Matthias Schubert

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Inteligence in Games (CIG), 2013

Erratum.

Magy Seif El-Nasr, Anders Drachen, Alessandro Canossa

Proceedings of the Game Analytics, Maximizing the Value of Player Data, 2013

Introduction.

Magy Seif El-Nasr, Anders Drachen, Alessandro Canossa

Proceedings of the Game Analytics, Maximizing the Value of Player Data, 2013

Game Data Mining.

Anders Drachen, Christian Thurau, Julian Togelius, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Christian Bauckhage

Proceedings of the Game Analytics, Maximizing the Value of Player Data, 2013

Spatial Game Analytics.

Anders Drachen, Matthias Schubert

Proceedings of the Game Analytics, Maximizing the Value of Player Data, 2013

Sampling for Game User Research.

Anders Drachen, André Gagné, Magy Seif El-Nasr

Proceedings of the Game Analytics, Maximizing the Value of Player Data, 2013

Game Analytics - The Basics.

Anders Drachen, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Alessandro Canossa

Proceedings of the Game Analytics, Maximizing the Value of Player Data, 2013

Gameplay Metrics in Game User Research: Examples from the Trenches.

Anders Drachen, Alessandro Canossa, Janus Rau Møller Sørensen

Proceedings of the Game Analytics, Maximizing the Value of Player Data, 2013

Benefits of Game Analytics: Stakeholders, Contexts and Domains.

Alessandro Canossa, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Game Analytics, Maximizing the Value of Player Data, 2013

2012

An investigation of player to player character identification via personal pronouns.

Michael Hitchens, Anders Drachen, Deborah Richards

Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, 2012

Guns, swords and data: Clustering of player behavior in computer games in the wild.

Anders Drachen, Rafet Sifa, Christian Bauckhage, Christian Thurau

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2012

How players lose interest in playing a game: An empirical study based on distributions of total playing times.

Christian Bauckhage, Kristian Kersting, Rafet Sifa, Christian Thurau, Anders Drachen, Alessandro Canossa

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2012

Game user research.

Magy Seif El-Nasr, Heather Desurvire, Lennart E. Nacke, Anders Drachen, Licia Calvi, Katherine Isbister, Regina Bernhaupt

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012

2011

Evaluating motion: spatial user behaviour in virtual environments.

Anders Drachen, Alessandro Canossa

Int. J. Arts Technol., 2011

Distribution of digital games via BitTorrent.

Anders Drachen, Kevin Bauer, Robert W. D. Veitch

Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, 2011

Naming Virtual Identities: Patterns and Inspirations for Character Names in World of Warcraft.

Christian Thurau, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2011 - 10th International Conference, 2011

Only the good... get pirated: game piracy activity vs. metacritic score.

Anders Drachen, Kevin Bauer, Robert W. D. Veitch

Proceedings of the Foundations of Digital Games, 2011

Arrrgghh!!!: blending quantitative and qualitative methods to detect player frustration.

Alessandro Canossa, Anders Drachen, Janus Rau Møller Sørensen

Proceedings of the Foundations of Digital Games, 2011

2010

Methods for Evaluating Gameplay Experience in a Serious Gaming Context.

Lennart E. Nacke, Anders Drachen, Stefan Göbel

Int. J. Comput. Sci. Sport, 2010

Psychophysiological Correlations with Gameplay Experience Dimensions

Anders Drachen, Lennart E. Nacke, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Anja Lee Pedersen

CoRR, 2010

Correlation between heart rate, electrodermal activity and player experience in first-person shooter games.

Anders Drachen, Lennart E. Nacke, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Anja Lee Pedersen

Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games, 2010

User studies: a strategy towards a successful industry-academic relationship.

Beth Aileen Lameman, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Anders Drachen, Wendy Foster, Dinara Moura, Bardia Aghabeigi

Proceedings of the International Academic Conference on the Future of Game Design and Technology, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 06, 2010

Predicting player behavior in Tomb Raider: Underworld.

Tobias Mahlmann, Anders Drachen, Julian Togelius, Alessandro Canossa, Georgios N. Yannakakis

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2010

2009

Game Time: Modeling and Analyzing Time in Multiplayer and Massively Multiplayer Games.

Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens

Games Cult., 2009

Towards gameplay analysis via gameplay metrics.

Anders Drachen, Alessandro Canossa

Proceedings of the 13th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era, 2009

Analyzing spatial user behavior in computer games using geographic information systems.

Anders Drachen, Alessandro Canossa

Proceedings of the 13th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era, 2009

Play-Personas: Behaviours and Belief Systems in User-Centred Game Design.

Alessandro Canossa, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction, 2009

Analyzing user behavior via gameplay metrics.

Anders Drachen, Alessandro Canossa

Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Future Play on @ GDC Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 12, 2009

Playability and Player Experience Research [Panel Abstracts].

Lennart E. Nacke, Anders Drachen, Kai Kuikkaniemi, Jörg Niesenhaus, Hannu Korhonen, Wouter van den Hoogen, Karolien Poels, Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn, Yvonne A. W. de Kort

Proceedings of the 2009 DiGRA International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, 2009

Towards Data-Driven Drama Management: Issues in Data Collection and Annotation.

Anders Drachen, Michael Hitchens, Arnav Jhala, Georgios N. Yannakakis

Proceedings of the 2009 DiGRA International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, 2009

Role-Playing Games: The State of Knowledge [Panel Abstracts].

Anders Drachen, Marinka Copier, Markus Montola, Mirjam P. Eladhari, Michael Hitchens, Jaakko Stenros

Proceedings of the 2009 DiGRA International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, 2009

Patterns of Play: Play-Personas in User-Centred Game Development.

Alessandro Canossa, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the 2009 DiGRA International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, 2009

Player modeling using self-organization in Tomb Raider: Underworld.

Anders Drachen, Alessandro Canossa, Georgios N. Yannakakis

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2009

The Personal Experience of Narratives in Role-Playing Games.

Michael Hitchens, Anders Drachen

Proceedings of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies II, 2009

Modeling the Story Facilitation of Game Masters in Multi-Player Role-Playing Games.

Anders Drachen, Michael Hitchens, Ruth Aylett, Sandy Louchart

Proceedings of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies II, 2009

2008

Character play: the use of game characters in multi-player role-playing games across platforms.

Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens, Thea Brolund

Comput. Entertain., 2008

Player talk - the functions of communication in multplayer role-playing games.

Anders Drachen, Jonas Heide Smith

Comput. Entertain., 2008

Managing emergent character-based narrative.

Ruth Aylett, Sandy Louchart, Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens, Rui Figueiredo, Carlos Delgado-Mata

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on INtelligent TEchnologies for interactive enterTAINment, 2008

Verbal Communication of Story Facilitators in Multi-player Role-Playing Games.

Anders Tychsen, Thea Brolund, Michael Hitchens

Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling, 2008

Tales for the Many: Process and Authorial Control in Multi-player Role-Playing Games.

Anders Tychsen

Proceedings of the Interactive Storytelling, 2008

Game format effects on communication in multi-player games.

Anders Tychsen, Jonas Heide Smith

Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Future Play: Research, Play, Share, 2008

Motivations for play in computer role-playing games.

Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens, Thea Brolund

Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Future Play: Research, Play, Share, 2008

Defining personas in games using metrics.

Anders Tychsen, Alessandro Canossa

Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Future Play: Research, Play, Share, 2008

2007

Group play: determining factors on the gaming experience in multiplayer role-playing games.

Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens, Thea Brolund, Doris McIlwain, Manolya Kavakli

Comput. Entertain., 2007

Cross-format analysis of the gaming experience in multi-player role-playing games.

Anders Tychsen, Ken Newman, Thea Brolund, Michael Hitchens

Proceedings of the 2007 DiGRA International Conference: Situated Play, 2007

Player-Character Dynamics in Multi-Player Role Playing Games.

Anders Tychsen, Doris McIlwain, Thea Brolund, Michael Hitchens

Proceedings of the 2007 DiGRA International Conference: Situated Play, 2007

2006

Live Action Role-Playing Games: Control, Communication, Storytelling, and MMORPG Similarities.

Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens, Thea Brolund, Manolya Kavakli

Games Cult., 2006

Personalizing the Player Experience in MMORPGs.

Anders Tychsen, Susana Pajares Tosca, Thea Brolund

Proceedings of the Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment, 2006

Communication in Multi-player Role Playing Games - The Effect of Medium.

Anders Tychsen, Jonas Heide Smith, Michael Hitchens, Susana Pajares Tosca

Proceedings of the Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment, 2006

Ghost Worlds - Time and Consequence in MMORPGs.

Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens

Proceedings of the Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment, 2006

2005

Tales for the many: Storytelling in RPGs, LARPs and MMORPGs.

Anders Tychsen

Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Conference 2005, 2005