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Huang, Yun; Ye, Wenyue; Bennett, Nicholas; Contractor, Noshir

doi:10.1145/2441776.2441822

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“…Communication (written and oral) and effective collaboration strategies were linked to satisfactory game experience. Similar results hold for other MOBAs [ 29 , 30 ]. Concluding, a recent study investigated the relation between brain activity and game-play experience in multiplayer games: playing with human teammates yields higher levels of satisfaction but lower overall performance and coordination than playing with computer-controlled teammates [ 31 ].…”

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“…Prior to this study, several works have been devoted to analysing the behaviour and activity of players in multiplayer games. In particular, behavioural dynamics of team-based online games have been extensively studied in role-playing games like World of Warcraft [ 26 , 27 ], in battle arena games like League of Legends [ 1 , 19 , 28 ] and in other games [ 21 , 29 , 30 ].…”

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Individual performance in team-based online games

Sapienza¹,

Zeng

Bessi³

et al. 2018

R. Soc. open sci.

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Complex real-world challenges are often solved through teamwork. Of special interest are ad hoc teams assembled to complete some task. Many popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video-games adopt this team formation strategy and thus provide a natural environment to study ad hoc teams. Our work examines data from a popular MOBA game, League of Legends, to understand the evolution of individual performance within ad hoc teams. Our analysis of player performance in successive matches of a gaming session demonstrates that a player’s success deteriorates over the course of the session, but this effect is mitigated by the player’s experience. We also find no significant long-term improvement in the individual performance of most players. Modelling the short-term performance dynamics allows us to accurately predict when players choose to continue to play or end the session. Our findings suggest possible directions for individualized incentives aimed at steering the player’s behaviour and improving team performance.

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confidence: 99%

Individual performance in team-based online games

Sapienza¹,

Zeng

Bessi³

et al. 2018

R. Soc. open sci.

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“…Furthermore, based on Huang, Ye, Bennett, and Contractor’s (2013) method, level was binarized into low (29.66%) and high (70.34%). It is important to mention that the binarized version of level that we employed is a relatively static individual attribute.…”

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Self-Organizing Into Winning Teams: Understanding the Mechanisms That Drive Successful Collaborations

Hopmeyer

DeChurch

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2017

Small Group Research

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Contemporary teams are self-assembling with increasing frequency, meaning the component members are choosing to join forces with some degree of agency rather than being assigned to work with one another. However, the majority of the teams literature up until this point has focused on randomly assigned or staffed teams. Thus, the purpose of the current study was to investigate how people do form into teams and how people should form into teams. Specifically, we utilized a sample of digital traces from a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (N = 1,568) to evaluate the bases for and performance implications of team self-assembly. The results indicated that self-assembled teams form via three mechanisms: homophily, familiarity, and proximity. Moreover, results of the trace data analyses indicated that successful and unsuccessful teams were homogeneous in terms of different characteristics, and successful teams formed based on friendship more often than unsuccessful teams did.

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A Case Study of How a Reduction in Explicit Leadership Changed an Online Game Community

McEwan

Gutwin

2017

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Functional or social?

Cited by 16 publications

References 17 publications

Individual performance in team-based online games

Individual performance in team-based online games

Self-Organizing Into Winning Teams: Understanding the Mechanisms That Drive Successful Collaborations

A Case Study of How a Reduction in Explicit Leadership Changed an Online Game Community

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