Attention, time perception and immersion in games

  • Authors:
  • A. Imran Nordin;Jaron Ali;Aishat Animashaun;Josh Asch;Josh Adams;Paul Cairns

  • Affiliations:
  • University of York, York, United Kingdom;University of York, York, United Kingdom;University of York, York, United Kingdom;University of York, York, United Kingdom;University of York, York, United Kingdom;University of York, York, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Immersion is a phenomenon experienced whilst playing digital games. Some argue that it is linked to time perception, where gamers claim that they are losing track of time while they are immersed in the game. In this work in progress, we describe an attempt to investigate the relationship between immersion and time perception. We manipulated attention because it is known to influence immersion and time perception differently. The results suggest that the experimental manipulation only affects time perception but not immersion. We therefore argue that there is a dissociation between immersion and time perception but further work is needed to investigate this in detail.