Investigating computer game immersion and the component real world dissociation

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3407-3412

  Jennett, Charlene ^a   Cox, Anna L ^a   Cairns, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Games; Immersion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAME; GAMES; IMMERSION;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISSOCIATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70349191345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1520340.1520494     Document Type: Conference Paper

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