What moves players?: visual data exploration of Twitter and gameplay data

Christian Drescher; Günter Wallner; Simone Kriglstein; Rafet Sifa; Anders Drachen; Margit Pohl

doi:10.1145/3173574.3174134

What moves players? visual data exploration of Twitter and gameplay data

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

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Engage with CHI
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5620-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174134
Publication status	Published - 20 Apr 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 - Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Canada Duration: 21 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018 Conference number: 36 http://chi2018.acm.org

Conference

Conference	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
Abbreviated title	CHI 2018
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	21/04/18 → 26/04/18
Internet address	http://chi2018.acm.org

Keywords

Destiny
Gameplay data
Online community
Twitter

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Drescher, C, Wallner, G, Kriglstein, S, Sifa, R, Drachen, A & Pohl, M 2018, What moves players? visual data exploration of Twitter and gameplay data. in CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI., 560, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, New York, 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018, Montreal, Canada, 21/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174134

What moves players? visual data exploration of Twitter and gameplay data. / Drescher, Christian; Wallner, Günter; Kriglstein, Simone et al.
CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2018. 560.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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