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A grounded investigation of game immersion

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CHI '04 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Vienna, Austria

SESSION: Late breaking result papers table of contents

Pages: 1297 - 1300

Year of Publication: 2004

ISBN:1-58113-703-6

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Emily Brown	University College London Interaction Centre (UCLIC), London, UK
Paul Cairns	University College London Interaction Centre (UCLIC), London, UK

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The term immersion is widely used to describe games but it is not clear what immersion is or indeed if people are using the same word consistently. This paper describes work done to define immersion based on the experiences of gamers. Grounded Theory is used to construct a robust division of immersion into the three levels: engagement, engrossment and total immersion. This division alone suggests new lines for investigating immersion and transferring it into software domains other than games.

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