Open AccessMobile Gaming Behaviors: An Exploratory Study of Mobile Game Players' Agency in Space and Time
Author(s) -
Sky LaRell Anderson
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
eludamos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1866-6124
DOI - 10.7557/23.6162
Subject(s) - temporality , agency (philosophy) , space (punctuation) , variety (cybernetics) , human–computer interaction , computer science , exploratory research , game mechanics , multimedia , sociology , epistemology , artificial intelligence , social science , philosophy , anthropology , operating system
Mobile gaming’s prevalence requires understanding how mobile devices dictate the gaming experience in a variety of spatial and temporal contexts. Through interviews with mobile game players, this article reveals elements of corporeal agency that break traditional, or stereotypical, notions of gaming spaces and times. This article argues that mobile game players demonstrate a fluid relationship to time, space, and physicality. The analysis consists of sections dedicated to the three primary elements of mobile gaming’s corporeal agency: physicality, temporality, and spatiality.