1. Immersion, Engagement, Presence, Agency
Josephine Anstey
Immersion, Engagement, Presence, Agency
Alison McMahan, “Immersion, Engagement and Presence: A Method for Analyzing 3-D Video Games,” The Video Game Theory Reader, Mark J.P. Wolf and Bernard Perron (Eds), Routledge,2003

2. diegetic -self-contained story level : “world of game’s story” p68
Josephine Anstey
McMahan, “Immersion, Engagement and Presence: A Method for Analyzing 3-D Video Games.”
Useful Terms
diegetic -self-contained story level : “world of game’s story” p68
nondiegetic - elements not part of story, (much) music in film, toolbars etc. in games
Usefulness of terms
Definitions never fixed, but encapsulate ideas
New field, coins and refines definitions

3. Immersion Diegetic? 3D environments? First person? Hardware?
Josephine Anstey
McMahan, “Immersion, Engagement and Presence: A Method for Analyzing 3-D Video Games.”
Immersion
Diegetic? 3D environments? First person? Hardware?
“…user’s expectation of game […] must match environment’s conventions … p 68
“…user’s actions must have non-trivial impact on the environment … p 69
What is your common sense notion of immersion?
What is the a relationship between narrative and immersion?
What is the relationship between participation and immersion?
What is the relationship between hardware and…?
“…convention of the world must be consistent …” p 69

4. Engagement Non-Diegetic? Devising Strategies
Josephine Anstey
McMahan, “Immersion, Engagement and Presence: A Method for Analyzing 3-D Video Games.”
Engagement
Non-Diegetic?
Devising Strategies
Meta-level understanding of game
Obsessive/ Deep Play
Is the pleasure of engagement different from the pleasure of immersion?
Examples of engagement? Statistics in baseball

5. Presence = - “…perceptual illusion of non-mediation…” p73
Josephine Anstey
McMahan, “Immersion, Engagement and Presence: A Method for Analyzing 3-D Video Games.”
Presence = - “…perceptual illusion of non-mediation…” p73
Quality of Social Interaction
Sense of Realism (social and perceptual)
Telepresence, Teleoperation, Teleportation
Perceptual and Psychological Immersion
Use of Social Actors in Medium
Intelligent Environment
Important Researchers
Lombard and Ditton
Mel Slater
Being There Term used by VR researchers - Lombard and Ditton subdivided into these elements
Sense of togetherness increased sense of presence (networked or artificial others), how does being one with or separate from your avatar alter sense of presence (Slater), quality of networks.
Social realism and perceptual realism - also behavioral realism
Transportation to this world - you are there, it is here, we are together (Lombard and Ditton), telepresence is forerunner of presence, video and comp graphics take us somewhere, teleop - less about games than remote surgey etc. teleportation - instantaneous movement in virtual envs - what does this do to our sense of presence (issue of internal logic and conventions)
mentions Osmose - I could bring picture or show movie
state of art of virtual beings
intelligent environment, - part of behavoral realism