Beleving a Medium

Immediacy Hypermediacy

Transperant imediacy Playing with the interface
Beleving you're there Showing layers (news cast)

Both tactics want to draw you in


Playing with a medium


PAINTING werd PHOTOGRAPHIE werd VIDEO werd GAME word INTERACTIVE


Levels of immersion

Engagement
Engrossment
Total Immergion


Engagement
- Willing to invest
- Lacks emotional depth
- Trying game
- Understandable controls
- Give quick low-level rewards

Engrossment
- User recognites good game contruction
- Game becomes main focus
- Helped by visuals on plot

Total immersion
- You feel you're there
- Outer world dissapears
- Easiest in first person

EMPATHY & ATMOSPHERE
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