Authors:
Jerrod Larson
Although computer games were originally confined to the displays of large and expensive university computers, they are now ubiquitous, found in living rooms, on mobile phones, and even 35,000 feet in the air on airline entertainment systems. With this ubiquity has come inquiry, and computer game research is now a bona fide scholarly endeavor as evidenced by journals covering the field (e.g., Game Studies), doctoral programs centered around the discipline (e.g., Center for Computer Game Research, IT University of Copenhagen), and, of course, this column. Of course HCI researchers have been conducting computer game research for decades, despite what…
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