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

Christian  Drescher; Guenter  Wallner; Simone Krieglstein; Rafet Sifa; Anders Drachen; Mieke Pohl

doi:10.1145/3173574.3174134

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

Christian Drescher, Guenter Wallner, Simone Krieglstein, Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen, Mieke Pohl

Computer Science

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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 '18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Paper No. 560
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Number of pages	13
Volume	2018-April
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450356206, 9781450356213
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-5620-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174134
Publication status	Published - 21 Apr 2018

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Name	Proceedings of the CHI Conference Human Factors in Computing Systems

Keywords

Destiny
Gameplay data
Online community
Twitter

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Drescher, C., Wallner, G., Krieglstein, S., Sifa, R., Drachen, A., & Pohl, M. (2018). What Moves Players? Visual Data Exploration of Twitter and Gameplay Data. In CHI '18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Paper No. 560 (Vol. 2018-April). Article 560 (Proceedings of the CHI Conference Human Factors in Computing Systems). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174134

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Drescher, C, Wallner, G, Krieglstein, S, Sifa, R, Drachen, A & Pohl, M 2018, What Moves Players? Visual Data Exploration of Twitter and Gameplay Data. in CHI '18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Paper No. 560. vol. 2018-April, 560, Proceedings of the CHI Conference Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, New York. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174134

What Moves Players? Visual Data Exploration of Twitter and Gameplay Data. / Drescher, Christian ; Wallner, Guenter ; Krieglstein, Simone et al.
CHI '18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Paper No. 560. Vol. 2018-April New York: ACM, 2018. 560 (Proceedings of the CHI Conference Human Factors in Computing Systems).

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Drescher C, Wallner G, Krieglstein S, Sifa R, Drachen A, Pohl M. What Moves Players? Visual Data Exploration of Twitter and Gameplay Data. In CHI '18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Paper No. 560. Vol. 2018-April. New York: ACM. 2018. 560. (Proceedings of the CHI Conference Human Factors in Computing Systems). doi: 10.1145/3173574.3174134

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