GTP is the transfer of experiences from the virtual to the physical world that comprise sensorial, perceptual, cognitive, and behavioural changes or intrusions in direct relationship to video game content/features, experiences during playing (e.g. immersion, embodiment), and game-related hardware/peripherals (e.g. gamepads).

• Demystifying, explaining and raising awareness about Game Transfer Phenomena to encourage healthy and safe video game playing.
• Contributing to the understanding of involuntary phenomena relevant for several scientific disciplines.
• Reducing the stigma of mental disorders and video game playing.

— Further goals:

• To understand the relationship between involuntary phenomena (e.g., sensory distortions/intrusions, spontaneous thoughts, urges and behaviours) and video games’ structural characteristics including the interaction with game-related hardware.

• To understand both the individual impact but also the potential uses of GTP.

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To date qualitative (N>1,000) and quantitative (N>6,000) studies have mainly focused on:
• Identifying and defining the forms of GTP, and their characteristics.
• Understanding the relationship between GTP and gaming-habits, demographics, psychopathology factors, executive functions, immersion, game-related activities,

Video games have become a matter of emotional touch, evoking not just sensations but lasting emotive imprints, which hold many of the same characteristics of memorable real-life experiences.

— ABOG, 2000 —

My name is Angelica B. Ortiz de Gortari. —