The Journal of Information Systems (한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구)

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The Influence of Group Characteristics on Effectiveness of Online Game : Focuses on MMOG

집단특성이 온라인 게임의 유효성에 미치는 영향 : MMOG를 중심으로

  • Received : 2011.01.14
  • Accepted : 2011.05.31
  • Published : 2011.06.30
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Abstract

Group features such as group cohesion and consistency on appropriation(COA), which have been constructed through social interactions, should be noted for characterizing online game, especially, clan based massively multi-players online game (MMOG). This study attempted to identify the relationship between group characteristics and users' effectiveness of MMOG considering group experience. For this purpose, a research model was suggested: group cohesion and COA are variables for explaining group features, perceived use control is a variable for individual competency of playing MMOG, and perceived winning and perceived enjoyment are dependent variables. Moreover, group experience was included as a moderating variables for two relationships, group cohesion-preceived winning and COA-perceived winning. For the validation of this research model, 100 users for Sudden Attack which is one of very well known MMOG games were surveyed by questionnaires. Before survey, they were grouped into 10 teams and were played over ten times by team for perceiving group consciousness. In result, most hypotheses were statistically supported except the relationship between group cohesion and perceived winning.

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