Interpreting behaviors of mobile game players from in-game data and context logs

Abstract

Human behaviors can be interpreted based on its routine activities. Since, mobile phones are very common now-a-days, the activities performed on a mobile phone can be an effective tool to judge the behavior of an individual. In this paper, we interpret the behavior of different individuals playing a mobile video game. For this purpose, we developed a “Shoot them up” android based video game and maintained in-game data and context logs for each player in a database. Then, we attempted to analyze the player's position and the skill level based on the data recorded during the game play. We believe that this work will be a good initial study to understand mobile game players.