Immersion in Digital Games: Review of Gaming Experience Research

Handbook of Digital Games

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 339-361

  Cairns, Paul ^a   Cox, Anna ^b   Imran Nordin, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital games; Gaming experience research; Immersion; Spatial presence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES;

DIGITAL GAMES; GAMING EXPERIENCES; IMMERSION; POSITIVE EXPERIENCES; REAL-WORLD; SPATIAL PRESENCE;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84900461274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118796443.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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