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111	#Icecrown Citadel #Ulduar : En kvalitativ studie om World of Warcraft utifrån spelarnas perspektiv / #Icecrown Citadel #Ulduar : A qualitative study about World of Warcraft from the player’s perspective Fontler, Sebastian January 2018 (has links) The purpose of this study is to examine the player’s experiences and perspective of the massively multiplayer online role playing game World of Warcraft. This study wants to find out the effects on the players psychological and social well-being through interviewing 10 World of Warcraft players between the ages of 18-32. This has been done through a thematic analysis. The reason behind this study is because a lot of scientific studies and the media has portrayed World of Warcraft players in a negative light where they are described as lone wolfs. This study wants to find out how the players themselves talk about the game and how it has affected their lives. The findings of this study have shown that players describe World of Warcraft as a meaningful occupation where it has given them better confidence, self-awareness, language skills, social skills but also build a social network inside the game. The social interactions that the players have with their friends have given them a platform to be open about their lives but also problems that affect them in the real world. The conclusion of this study is that the picture that a lot of the scientific studies and the media are portraying is a dishonest one. They judge players as single group where they do not look at the bigger picture or through the perspective of the World of Warcraft player. World of Warcraft MMORPG Confidence Self-awareness Language skills Social skills Social competence Social support Identity Leadership Collaboration Communication Anonymity Dramaturgical perspective Social constructivism Social identity Thematic analysis Psychology Psykologi
112	Prosoziales Verhalten in virtuellen Welten am Beispiel von Online‐Rollenspielen: Der Einfluss situativer und dispositionaler Faktoren im Vergleich zu realen Hilfesituationen Valtin, Georg 25 November 2014 (has links) Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht am Beispiel von Online-Rollenspielen, wie sich prosoziales Verhalten in virtuellen Umgebungen im Vergleich zu dem in realen Umgebungen unterscheidet. Ausgangspunkt für die Untersuchungen sind die Modelle zum und Einflussgrößen auf das prosoziale Verhalten, die als Ergebnisse der einschlägigen Forschung realer Hilfesituationen vorliegen. Unter Berücksichtigung der Charakteristika und Besonderheiten von Online-Rollenspielen werden verschiedene Variablen wie Attraktivität des Hilfeempfängers, Ähnlichkeit zwischen Helfer und Hilfeempfänger, die Schwere der Notsituation und Gruppenzugehörigkeit auf ihre Auswirkung auf das prosoziale Verhalten in virtuellen Szenarien getestet. Um ein maximales Maß an externer Validität zu gewährleisten, kommt dabei die Methode der In-situ-Untersuchung zum Einsatz, bei der das Verhalten der Probanden in natürlichen Spielsituationen erfasst wird. Die Ergebnisse zeigen bei weiblichen Avataren einen signifikanten Einfluss der Attraktivität bei männlichen Helfern, wohingegen es bei fehlender Verfügbarkeit von Attraktivitätsmerkmalen keine Geschlechtsunterschiede gibt. Kein Einfluss auf prosoziales Verhalten kann bei den Variablen Schwere der Notsituation und perzeptueller Ähnlichkeit nachgewiesen werden. Darüber hinaus wird mittels einer Fragebogenstudie der Einfluss dispositionaler Merkmale, die unter dem Begriff prosoziale Persönlichkeit zusammengefasst werden, auf prosoziales Verhalten untersucht. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die positiven Prädiktoren empathic concern, other-oriented moral reasoning und der negative Prädiktor personal distress einen signifikanten Einfluss auf das Auftreten prosozialen Verhaltens in realen und in virtuellen Szenarien haben. Allerdings unterscheidet sich die Höhe des Einflusses dieser Variablen in Abhängigkeit der Zielpersonen des prosozialen Verhaltens (Ingroup vs. Outgroup) sowie des Umgebung (real vs. virtuell). info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/100 ddc:100 info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/150 ddc:150 Prosoziales Verhalten; Sozialpsychologie
113	Machinima : Ett kulturellt fält i rörelse / Machinima : A cultural field reorganizing Forsgren, Oskar, Nilsson, Daniel, Forsberg, Christoffer January 2010 (has links) I mitten av 1990-talet närmare bestämt 1996 gjordes en film kallad Diary of a Camper. Filmen handlade om en person som satt och lurpassade på sina fiender i ett datorspel. Det som var speciellt med denna film var inte handlingen eller något fantastiskt kameraarbete. Nej det som var speciellt var det faktum att filmen spelades in i ett datorspel. Denna film anses vara startskottet för machinimakulturen som idag omfattar flera tusen utövare världen över.Det var personerna bakom Diary of a camper som myntade uttrycket machinima som är en sammanslagning av de engelska orden ”machine” och ”animation” alltså maskin och animation. Det finns en annan tolkning där ordets andra stavelse är ”cinema” istället för ”animation” men den officiella ska vara det tidigare. Vad än ordet machinima är ihopsatt av är det en filmteknik där kreatören eller producenten spelar in sin historia i ett TV- eller datorspel. I denna uppsats tittar vi närmare på machinimakulturen och vad för regler, attityder och förhållningssätt som finns i denna tilldags dato, anno 2010, något outforskade arena. machinima social change computer games culture computer art game microsoft blizzard convergence fanfiction remix culture Halo World of Warcraft machinima sical förändring spel tv-spel datorspel blizzard microsoft konst fanfiction Henry jenkins Pierre Bourdieu Lawrence Lessig Michel Focault remixkultur konvergenskultur konvergens Technology and social change Teknik och social förändring
114	Rendering the Other: Ideologies of the Neo-Oriental in World of Warcraft Vlisides, James C. 15 May 2013 (has links) No description available. American Studies Asian American Studies Asian Studies Computer Science Cultural Anthropology Ethnic Studies Information Science Information Systems Information Technology Mass Communications Mass Media Rhetoric Social Research Sociology Technology Technical Communication American Cuilture Studies Video Games Ideology Althusser Said Asia Orientalism World of Warcraft Play Thesis Race Materialism Capitalism Gold Farming Play Immersion Postmodernism
115	Supporting Interaction Designers through the Accomplishment Support Tool: IxD Companion Cotoranu, Alexandru January 2012 (has links) This thesis paper addresses a problem of motivation that interaction designers experience when managing multiple design processes while keeping track of many design considerations. Once this issue is described at length, the paper focuses towards a possible solution in the form of a hybrid between creativity and productivity support tools: an accomplishment support tool. This tool is meant to support interaction designers in their experience with managing multiple processes.This paper does not suggest that interaction design is the only profession that suffers from the motivation issue that is described, nor does it deny that other professions could benefit from the use of such a tool. The paper merely attempts to narrow the issue down to one profession so that it may be addressed within the limits of the thesis project.The paper explores the need for such a tool by inspecting and analyzing current methods and digital applications used by interaction designers and mentions how this need is addressed with solutions based on relevant theories from diverse areas of interest. As defining qualities emerge from a combination of theoretical and practical research, case studies are described from a preparation perspective and then as experienced by workshop participants and interviewees.The case studies (which include workshops and prototype modules) are then reflected upon and discussed in terms of their impact on the overall goals of the thesis project. A final prototype in the form of a web application, IxD Companion, is then described through scenarios of use and assessed in the conclusion. Suggestion to future work on accomplishment support tools such as IxD Companion, as well as others, is provided at the end. interaction design IxD Companion accomplishment support tool motivation collaboration social discovery boundary objects design-games engagement usability information visualization to-do lists design approaches team design reflective methods project management process management scrum microsoft project microsoft visio google calendar remember the milk questhelper world of warcraft inquiry exploration workshop workshops time management prototype prototypes mockup Engineering and Technology Teknik och teknologier

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