Anders Drachen

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

Thousands of technology professionals attend in-person meetups each month in cities around the world. However, during the Covid-19 pandemic, social distancing requirements have forced meetups in many locations to operate exclusively virtual events for the first time. We surveyed participants (n=251) who attend technol…

IUI '215th+ AuthorExplainable AI (XAI) +2

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

Work in AI-based explanation systems has uncovered an interesting contradiction: people prefer and learn best from 'why' explanations but expert esports commentators primarily answer 'what' questions when explaining complex behavior in real-time strategy games. Three possible explanations for this contradiction are: 1…

CHI '194th AuthorHonorable MentionGame UX & Player Behavior +1

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

In a wide range of social networks, people's behavior is influenced by social contagion: we do what our network does. Networks often feature particularly influential individuals, commonly called "influencers." Existing work suggests that in-game social networks in online games are similar to real-life social networks…

CHI '185th+ AuthorInteractive Data Visualization +1

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

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…

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