Gnome Rogue with Pink Mohawk LFG - New WoW Study
Submitted by Theryl on March 17, 2010 - 3:25pm
Nick Yee, whom some of you may be familiar with from his previous work studying MMOs, and some of his colleagues from the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) are conducting a new study based on WoW (North American and Oceanic servers).
From Dr. Yee's website: Have you ever wondered about who it is behind that gnome rogue with the pink mohawk? Or whether it’s possible to figure out if a player is a man or a woman just from the way they play the game? We’re social scientists from the US, Taiwan, and Hong Kong and we’ve wondered about that too. And that’s what this study is about.
We’re trying to find out how well we can predict who people are just from the way they behave in a virtual world. Our research team has a long history of studying interesting aspects of online games. We are also the same researchers who brought you the Daedalus Project and the PARC PlayOn Project. To be a part of our newest research project takes only about 15 minutes to complete a web survey. If you are a FaceBook user, we’ll also ask you to install a FaceBook app to gather some of your real world data. Individuals who are under the age of 18 or incarcerated are not eligible for participation. Click here to begin.
Neat thing, At one point it
Neat thing, At one point it looked like
>implying I have OCD
"Nobody's a traitor until they are."