论文标题
Roleseer：通过视觉分析了解MMORPG中的非正式社会角色变化
RoleSeer: Understanding Informal Social Role Changes in MMORPGs via Visual Analytics
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论文摘要
大量的多人在线角色扮演游戏创造了虚拟社区，以支持特定社交环境下的游戏互动行为确定的异质“社会角色”。对于所有社会角色，正式角色都是预定的，显而易见的，并且明确地归因于担任角色的人，而非正式角色的定义且未得到很好的态度。确定非正式角色和理解其微妙的变化对于设计社交机制至关重要。但是，由于它们的明确定义，可互和动态特征，理解此类角色的存在和演变是不平凡的。我们提出了一个视觉分析系统Roleseer，旨在从行为相互作用的角度研究非正式角色，并描述其动态互续和过渡。两种案例，专家的反馈和用户研究表明，Roleseer有助于解释确定的非正式角色，并探索角色变化背后的模式。我们看到了我们的方法在调查广泛社交游戏中的非正式角色方面的潜力。
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games create virtual communities that support heterogeneous "social roles" determined by gameplay interaction behaviors under a specific social context. For all social roles, formal roles are pre-defined, obvious, and explicitly ascribed to the people holding the roles, whereas informal roles are not well-defined and unspoken. Identifying the informal roles and understanding their subtle changes are critical to designing sociability mechanisms. However, it is nontrivial to understand the existence and evolution of such roles due to their loosely defined, interconvertible, and dynamic characteristics. We propose a visual analytics system, RoleSeer, to investigate informal roles from the perspectives of behavioral interactions and depict their dynamic interconversions and transitions. Two cases, experts' feedback, and a user study suggest that RoleSeer helps interpret the identified informal roles and explore the patterns behind role changes. We see our approach's potential in investigating informal roles in a broader range of social games.
