GameLifeVis: visual analysis of behavior evolutions in multiplayer online games.

Autor: Chen, Wei, Lu, Junhua, Kong, Dingke, Liu, Zhiqi, Shen, Yandi, Chen, Yinyin, He, Jingxuan, Liu, Shu, Qi, Ye, Wu, Yingcai
Zdroj: Journal of Visualization; Aug2017, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p651-665, 15p
Abstrakt: Analyzing the user behaviors of multiplayer online games can help understand the sociality and characteristics of players in the virtual world. The primary task is to characterize the game life and its evolution within the game. We propose a novel network-based representation, EvolutionLine Graph, which illustrates the evolving behavior of massive game players as a sequence of time-oriented transitions among various status. We design and implement a novel visual analytics system, GameLifeVis, that supports the visualization, exploration, and analysis of multi-level user behaviors in an integrated visual interface. We exemplify the efficiency of our approach with case studies on a multi-faceted dataset collected within a popular online game (15 million players) in 18 months. Graphical abstract: [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index