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Behavioral telemetry logging with observable, unambiguous, contextualized events

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The chapter holds that telemetry "should have the following properties: (a) is a description of behavior and not an inference about why behavior occurs, (b) is unambiguous," and (c) contains sufficient context to link the element to a specific player at a specific point. Logging an inference such as does not understand adding fractions may be inaccurate without validity evidence, restricts later analyses, and can subsume multiple events into uninterpretable aggregates; ambiguity should be avoided so single events remain distinguishable.

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  • Record descriptions of behavior, not inferences, that are unambiguous and contextualized: The chapter holds that telemetry "should have the following properties: (a) is a description of behavior and not an inference about why behavior occurs, (b) is unambiguous," and (c) contains sufficient context to link the element to a specific player at a specific point. Logging an inference such as does not understand adding fractions may be inaccurate without validity evidence, restricts later analyses, and can subsume multiple events into uninterpretable aggregates; ambiguity should be avoided so single events remain distinguishable. (Gregory K.W.K. Chung (2015))

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  • Gregory K.W.K. Chung. (2015). Guidelines for the Design and Implementation of Game Telemetry for Serious Games Analytics. In C.S. Loh et al. (eds.), Serious Games Analytics. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05834-4_3
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title Behavioral telemetry logging with observable, unambiguous, contextualized events
description The chapter holds that telemetry "should have the following properties: (a) is a description of behavior and not an inference about why behavior occurs, (b) is unambiguous," and (c) contains sufficient context to link the element to a specific player at a specific point.
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