TY - JOUR
T1 - Analysis of Game Bot's Behavioral Characteristics in Social Interaction Networks of MMORPG
AU - Jeong, Seong Hoon
AU - Kang, Ah Reum
AU - Kim, Huy Kang
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (2014R1A1A1006228).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Owner/Author.
PY - 2015/8/17
Y1 - 2015/8/17
N2 - MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) is one of the best platforms to observe human's behaviors. In collaboration with a leading online game company, NCSoft, we can observe all behaviors in a large-scale of commercialized MMORPG. Especially, we analyzed the behavioral differences between game bots and human users. We categorized the five groups, Bot-Bot, Bot-All, Human-Human, Human-All and All-All, and we observe the characteristics of six social interaction networks for each group. As a result, we found that there are significant differences in social behaviors between game bots and human.
AB - MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) is one of the best platforms to observe human's behaviors. In collaboration with a leading online game company, NCSoft, we can observe all behaviors in a large-scale of commercialized MMORPG. Especially, we analyzed the behavioral differences between game bots and human users. We categorized the five groups, Bot-Bot, Bot-All, Human-Human, Human-All and All-All, and we observe the characteristics of six social interaction networks for each group. As a result, we found that there are significant differences in social behaviors between game bots and human.
KW - Game bot
KW - Massively multiplayer online game
KW - Social network analysis
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U2 - 10.1145/2785956.2790005
DO - 10.1145/2785956.2790005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086574385
SN - 0146-4833
VL - 45
SP - 99
EP - 100
JO - Computer Communication Review
JF - Computer Communication Review
IS - 4
ER -