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Part IV - Techniques for Analyzing Game Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2018

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Gita Sukthankar  and
Rolf T. Wigand
Kiran Lakkaraju
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Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Gita Sukthankar
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University of Central Florida
Rolf T. Wigand
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University of Arkansas
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Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
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