RoleSeer: Understanding Informal Social Role Changes in MMORPGs via Visual Analytics
RoleSeer: Understanding Informal Social Role Changes in MMORPGs via Visual Analytics
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games create virtual communities that support heterogeneous "social roles" determined by gameplay interaction behaviors under a specific social context. For all social roles, formal roles are pre-defined, obvious, and explicitly ascribed to the people holding the roles, whereas informal roles are not well-defined and unspoken. Identifying …