Video games and the mind : essays on cognition, affect and emotion /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Other Authors:	Perron, Bernard (Editor), Schröter, Felix (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
Subjects:	Video games > Psychological aspects. Video games > Design. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : video games, cognition, affect and emotion / Bernard Perron and Felix Schroter
Cognition. Narrative comprehension and video game storyworlds / Jan-Noel Thon
My avatar and me : toward a cognitive theory of video game characters / Felix Schroter
Hit it : core cognitive structures and the fighting game / Andreas Gregersen
It's not just hands : embodiment aspects in gameplay / Jana Rambusch
Affect. Expressive and affective gameplay with technologies / Rikke Toft Nørgard
Games of the heart and mind : affective ludology and the development of emotionally aware player experiences / Lennart E. Nacke [and others]
Flying on the ground : driving for pleasure in digital racing simulation games / Simon Niedenthal
Affective spaces and audiovisual metaphors in video games / Kathrin Fahlenbrach
Emotion. Video game sadness from planetfall to passage / Jonathan Frome
Representing childhood, triggering emotions : child characters in video games / Susanne Eichner
Emotions in video games : are you concerned? / Bernard Perron.