Abstract

Both offline and online human behaviors are affected by personality. Of special interests are online games, where players have to impersonate specific roles and their behaviors are extensively tracked by the game. In this paper, we propose to study the relationship between players' personality and game behavior in League of Legends (LoL), one of the most popular Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games. We use linear mixed effects (LME) models to describe relationships between players' personality traits (measured by the Five Factor Model) and two major aspects of the game: the impersonated roles and in-game actions. On the one hand, we study relationships within the game environment by modeling role attributes from match behaviors and vice versa. On the other hand, we analyze the relationship between a player's five personality traits and their game behavior by showing significant correlations …

Date

2019

Authors

Zhao Wang, Anna Sapienza, Aron Culotta, Emilio Ferrara

Journal

IEEE Conference on Games

Publisher

arxiv:1905.08418