Scott Fisher

(Wordle by S.Anderson)

Discussion leader: Jen Stein with help from Nahil Sharkasi and Bill Graner
Time: Wednesday, September 17, 6-8pm
Location: USC's Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC),
Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)

Discussion Title: "Define Immersion..."

Tonight's seminar will focus on concepts of immersion raised in the previous two seminar presentations by Mark Bolas and Scott Fisher. Logs for the backchannel discussion can be reviewed on the respective talk announcements.

These points of view will be discussed in relation to the "Immersive Fallacy" presented by Zimmerman and Salen in Rules of Play, (pp. 450-458). Please read this article

Other important readings:
- The Virtual Reality Experience, in Understanding Virtual Reality, pp. 381-398

- A Grounded Investigation of Game Immersion, Emily Brown and Paul Cairns University College London Interaction Centre (UCLIC)

- Player Immersion in the Computer Game Narrative, Hua Qin, Pei-Luen Patrick Rau1, and Gavriel Salvendy
(can be downloaded from on-campus network or vpn)

- Multisensory immersion as a modeling environment for learning complex scientific concepts, Dede, C., Salzman, M., Loftin, B., & Sprague, D.

BACKCHANNEL LOG from seminar: Download file

Video summary of discussion by Brandi Wilcox and Sean Plott: