From immersion to addiction in videogames

Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction, BCS HCI 2008

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 55-63

  Seah, May Li ^a   Cairns, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addiction; Engagement; Immersion; Videogames

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; DIARY STUDY; ENGAGEMENT; FOLLOW UP; IMMERSION; IMMERSIVE; QUESTIONNAIRE STUDIES; VIDEO GAME;

EID: 84923812862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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