A grounded investigation of game immersion

By Emily Brown, Paul A. Cairns. CHI EA '04, 2004

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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What is user engagement? A conceptual framework for defining user engagement with technology (2008, positive): “Previous studies indicate that engagement consists of system feedback, user control (Brown & Cairns, 2004), attention, motivation (Chapman, 1997), and the ability of the system to challenge individuals at levels appropriate to their knowledge and skills (Skelly, Fries, Linnett, Nass, & Reeves,…”
GameFlow: a model for evaluating player enjoyment in games (2005, background): “The game becomes the most important part of the player s attention and their emotions are directly affected by the game [Brown and Cairns 2004].”
Gameful Experience in Gamification: Construction and Validation of a Gameful Experience Scale [GAMEX] (2018, background): “” It is considered a precondition of flow and is often used instead of flow to describe the gaming experience, because it represents a non-optimal state that is less extreme than flow (Brown and Cairns 2004; Ermi and Mäyrä 2005; Jennett et al. 2008).”
Fundamental Components of the Gameplay Experience: Analysing Immersion (2005, background): “Brown and Cairns [3] see total immersion as a synonym for presence.”
Conceptualising engagement with digital behaviour change interventions: a systematic review using principles from critical interpretive synthesis (2016, background): “Message tone, which refers to the terminology and wording used to communicate health messages [92, 101], and narrative [43, 50, 65, 103, 125, 140], referring to the presence of a storyline, have been hypothesised to positively influence engagement.”
Characterising and measuring user experiences in digital games (2007, positive): “In the absence of any agreed upon definition, Brown and Cairns [2] performed a number of interviews with gamers to find out what they mean when talking about immersion.”
Achieving Immersion in the Tourism Experience: The Role of Autonomy, Temporal Dissociation, and Reactance (2020, background): “They are described as detached and highly concentrated on the activity at hand that becomes the focal point of their thoughts and feelings (Brown and Cairns 2004).”
Measuring and defining the experience of immersion in games (2008, background): “" When you stop thinking about the fact that you're playing a computer game and you're just in a computer " (Brown & Cairns, 2004).”
Flow and immersion in first-person shooters: measuring the player's gameplay experience (2008, background): “A qualitative study conducted by Brown and Cairns [3] analyzed players’ feelings towards their favorite game and led them to propose three gradual and successive levels of player immersion: engagement, engrossment, and total immersion.”
Immersion revisited: A review of existing definitions of immersion and their relation to different theories of presence (2016, neutral): “These domains include, but are not limited to, VE research (Slater, 2003; Witmer & Singer, 1998), video game studies (Adams & Rollings, 2006; Brown & Cairns, 2004; McMahan, 2003), film studies (Rooney, Benson, & Hennessy, 2012; Visch, Tan, & Molenaar, 2010), music studies (Dura, 2006; Ihde, 2007),…”
Development and validation of the player experience inventory: A scale to measure player experiences at the level of functional and psychosocial consequences (2020, background): “…specific desired psychological states associated with gameplay, such as flow Csikszentmihalyi (1990); Csikszentmihalyi and Bennett (1971), immersion Brown and Cairns (2004); Ermi and Mäyrä (2005), cognitive absorption Agarwal and Karahanna (2000), presence Bracken and Skalski (2010); Takatalo et…”
The Development and Validation of the Game User Experience Satisfaction Scale (GUESS) (2016, background): “In the field of video games, there is a lack of consensus on the concrete definition of engagement (e.g., Brown & Cairns, 2004; Downs, Vetere, Howard, & Loughnan, 2013; Jones, 1998; Mayes & Cotton, 2001).”
Does Body Movement Engage You More in Digital Game Play? and Why? (2007, methodology): “Given a similar GITQ score and the fact that engagement is considered the first step in immersion [10], the higher correlation obtained in the G condition demonstrates that the guitar-shaped controller enhanced the level of engagement the participants experienced.”
Taking "Fun and Games" Seriously: Proposing the Hedonic-Motivation System Adoption Model (HMSAM) (2012, background): “Because immersion is the consequence of multiple stages of increased attention over time (see for e.g., Brown & Cairns, 2004; Chen, 2007; Ermi & Mäyrä, 2005; Jennett et al., 2008; Weibel et al., 2008; Wild et al., 1995; Witmer & Singer, 1998), increases in curiosity in an HMS context should lead to…”