Non-negative tensor factorization for human behavioral pattern mining in online games

Anna Sapienza, Alessandro Bessi, Emilio Ferrara

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Abstract

Multiplayer online battle arena is a genre of online games that has become extremely popular. Due to their success, these games also drew the attention of our research community, because they provide a wealth of information about human online interactions and behaviors. A crucial problem is the extraction of activity patterns that characterize this type of data, in an interpretable way. Here, we leverage the Non-negative Tensor Factorization to detect hidden correlated behaviors of playing in a well-known game: League of Legends. To this aim, we collect the entire gaming history of a group of about 1000 players, which accounts for roughly 100K matches. By applying our framework we are able to separate players into different groups. We show that each group exhibits similar features and playing strategies, as well as similar temporal trajectories, i.e., behavioral progressions over the course of their gaming history. We surprisingly discover that playing strategies are stable over time and we provide an explanation for this observation.

Lingua originaleInglese
Numero di articolo66
RivistaInformation (Switzerland)
Volume9
Numero di pubblicazione3
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 16 mar 2018
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