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Title: Counting the Game: Visualizing Changes in Play by Incorporating Game Events
Award ID(s):
1907384
PAR ID:
10512596
Author(s) / Creator(s):
; ;
Editor(s):
Ruis, AR; Lee, SB
Publisher / Repository:
Springer, Cham
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Advances in Quantitative Ethnography. ICQE 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume:
1312
ISBN:
978-3-030-67788-6
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
games game based learning data mining quantitive ethnography
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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