It is easy to imagine how Augmented Reality technologies will transform, enhance or distort our everyday perceptions by superimposing vivid synthetic images on real world sceneries. Localization-based quasi-augmented reality games such as Ingress and more recently Pokémon Go, offer possibilities to get the first insights of Game Transfer Phenomena and […]
Gamers, followers! We need your help. I’m looking for gamers for a pilot test of a new survey on Game Transfer Phenomena! Please send me an email if you are interested. Answering the survey will take max 25 minutes.
I’m not a fan of nightmares, but “Little Nightmares” is something I’m happy to experience! The horror puzzle platform game developed by Swedish developers Tarsier Studios received high praise when it was released a couple of weeks ago. In his article in Die Zeit Achim Fehrenbach goes into research on […]
The book Boundaries of Self and Reality Online: Implications of Digitally Constructed Realities edited by Jayne Gackenbach & Johnathan Bown, includes a chapter by me and Mark D. Griffiths. “Beyond the Boundaries of the Game: The Interplay Between In-Game Phenomena, Structural Characteristics of Video Games, and Game Transfer Phenomena”. This chapter is a first […]
Join us at the Hallucinema conference where we explore the intersection of hallucinations and media organized by Abou Farman, hosted at The New School, a university in New York City. “We live in hallucinatory times. The distinction between imagination and perception, on which understandings of reality are based, seem to be collapsing everywhere in […]
Washington Post is running a series of stories on growing up in “The screen age”. In the most recent story “The next level” they go into the case of “Byrne”, his struggles with gaming addition and the impact on his family. Byrne has also experienced Game Transfer Phenomena (GTP). “After […]
Quel effet psychologique des jeux vidéo et de la réalité virtuelle? “Quand je jouais beaucoup à World of Warcraft… je commençais à voir des barres de vie au-dessus de la tête des gens” […]
Moving from UK… I will miss many things from Nottingham, the city of Robin Hood! A colourful multicultural, breathing and living city! A city that I witnessed getting developed during the last couple of years. I’m happy and proud when I look back at my time in Nottingham. During the […]
Is technology haunting us? Or we are haunting it? Aleks Krotoski wonders. Traditional definitions of what is alive seem limited! Toys dance, cry, smile; advanced technologies are “smart”, and trick us making us feel they are present and even alive. Traces from virtual immersion appear and people see and hear […]
Looking for Pokémon Go players for a new study! Please help us by answering this survey focusing on Pokémon Go & Game Transfer Phenomena. The aim is to investigate the impact of the Augmented Reality game Pokémon GO on gamers´ well-being and Game Transfer Phenomena. You should be at least 18 […]