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Title Predicting real world behaviors from virtual world data / Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Cuihua Shen, Jaideep Srivastava, Noshir Contractor, editors
Published Cham : Springer, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 118 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Springer Proceedings in Complexity, 2213-8684
Springer proceedings in complexity, 2213-8684
Contents Preface -- On The Problem of Predicting Real World Characteristics from Virtual Worlds -- The Use of Social Science Methods to Predict Player Characteristics from Avatar Observations -- Analyzing Effects of Public Communication onto Player Behavior in Massively Multiplayer Online Games -- Identifying User Demographic Traits through Virtual-World Language Use -- Predicting MMO Player Gender from In-Game Attributes using Machine Learning Models -- Predicting Links in Human Contact Networks using Online Social Proximity -- Identifying a Typology of Players Based on Longitudinal Game Data
Summary This book addresses prediction, mining and analysis of offline characteristics and behaviors from online data and vice versa. Each chapter will focus on a different aspect of virtual worlds to real world prediction e.g., demographics, personality, location, etc. There is a growing body of literature that focuses on the similarities and differences between how people behave in the offline world vs. how they behave in these virtual environments. Data mining has aided in discovering interesting insights with respect to how people behave in these virtual environments
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 6, 2014)
Subject Virtual reality -- Social aspects
Video games -- Social aspects
Internet -- Social aspects.
COMPUTERS -- General.
Computer games -- Social aspects
Internet -- Social aspects
Virtual reality -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Ahmad, Muhammad Aurangzeb, editor.
Shen, Cuihua, editor
Srivastava, Jaideep, editor
Contractor, Noshir, editor
ISBN 9783319071428
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3319071416
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