Week Nine 11/18

Summary of the week:

- Preparing presentation for thesis proposal defense dry run

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LhGDg8pjOMHWlI6wimIm2L2dWFFLYYepaS6zrtZthGo/edit#slide=id.g177a541c7_4_29

Week Eight 11/11

Summary of the week:

- Continued to revise proposal based on feedback from committee

- Reading through Game Analytics - Maximizing the Value of Player Data by Anders Drachen, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Alessandro Canossa

Buy: http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/book/978-1-4471-4768-8

Student Download: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-4769-5_4#page-1

- Preparing presentation for thesis proposal defense dry run

Week Seven 11/4

Meeting with Stefan:

- Proposal Comment 14: Look for the usage of character creation tools in games, online communities, and studies regarding that topic. (As well as the differences regarding the creation of player characters and non player characters.)

- Proposal Comment 15: Look up Game Telemetry and Game Analytics. (Anders Drachen from North Eastern University.  Also, he's working with heatmaps.)

- Proposal Comment 17: Test the hypothesis (the character creation tool) by making sure that the data collected by the tool is relevant to literature/expert on how avatars can prevent negative self concept.

- Modify Methodology section so that the Methods section talks about making a tool based on theory and doing a pre-test derived from literature.  Why is this appropriate/What are the limits?
Then another section will be the Work Plan which includes the specifics of what I need to do.  What time problems and practical problems will there be?

- Seek feedback from committee on Game Telemetry, Game Analytics, Neutral Clothing from Gender Studies, and thesis proposal.

http://andersdrachen.wordpress.com/learn-about-game-analytics/