Does Entertainment Suffer From Interactivity? The Impact of Watching an Interactive TV Movie on Viewers' Experience of Entertainment

Vorderer, Peter; Knobloch, Silvia; Schramm, Holger

doi:10.1207/s1532785xmep0304_03

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“…Hence, these results are more congruent with findings indicating that too much interactivity may inhibit certain aspects of information processing (see also Vorderer et al, 2001, for example) than findings or expectations suggesting that interactivity may be a solution to many problems (e.g., Kiousis, 2002). So, although the high interactivity of the Internet may be praised for its capabilities to improve cognitive elaboration (e.g., MacGregor & Lou, 2004;Tremayne & Dunwoody, 2001), this is not an inherent feature of the medium.…”

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Early Exposures to Ecogenomics: Effects of Priming and Web Site Interactivity Among Adolescents

Bos¹,

Koolstra²,

Willems

2010

Science Communication

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In the context of public introductions to emerging technologies, this study examined effects of priming and Web site interactivity on adolescents’ attitude development and information processing. In a four (priming) by three (interactivity levels) experiment, participants ( N = 273) were required to search for and process Web-based information about ecogenomics. Results showed that priming ecogenomics as biotechnology, ecology, economy, or science in general did not affect attitude development. Interactivity levels, manipulated as low, medium, and high, were found to influence adolescents’ time invested in the information-processing task, perceived cognitive load, and Web site evaluations.

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 81%

Early Exposures to Ecogenomics: Effects of Priming and Web Site Interactivity Among Adolescents

Bos¹,

Koolstra²,

Willems

2010

Science Communication

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“…Several studies examined the relation of interactivity and presence and found that playing a game leads to a higher sense of presence than observing a game [8; 9]. This might be related to the fact that interactivity also leads both to a higher degree of entertainment [10] and arousal [11]. Therefore, interactivity can be seen as an influencing component for the sensation of presence.…”

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Subjective and behavioral presence measurement and interactivity in the collaborative augmented reality game TimeWarp

Pütten

Klatt

Broeke

et al. 2012

Interacting with Computers

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Presence measurements are traditionally using a variety of subjective and objective measures. However, constraints often result in subjective measurements using questionnaires as a key method of data collection. In this paper we present a study of 44 participants of a collaborative augmented reality game known as TimeWarp which used both subjective and objective behavioral measures where both video recordings and self-reports about feelings of presence were compared. We further investigated the influence of the collaborative nature of the game and of subjectively perceived interactivity on perceived presence. Our findings indicate that pointing behavior and verbal responses to virtual content within an augmented reality scene are correlated negatively to sense of presence. Our results suggest that certain behavioral measures correlate with subjective feelings of presence and can predict the latter in the augmented reality game. With regard to collaborative game play and interactivity on presence we found no influence for collaborative gameplay, however, the interaction possibilities perceived by the participants predicted their experience of social presence with the virtual characters in the game. Implications for presence research are discussed.

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“…The involvement construct may be refined for the assessment of particular ITV content. For example, Vorderer et al [48] evaluated an interactive story by employing questionnaires measuring the empathy towards the protagonist and the suspense. The involvement construct corresponds to the behavioural part of the brain structure, because the degree of personal relevance is formed while watching a TV program.…”

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User interface evaluation of interactive TV: a media studies perspective

Chorianopoulos

Spinellis

2006

Univ Access Inf Soc

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A diverse user population employs interactive TV (ITV) applications in a leisure context for entertainment purposes. The traditional user interface (UI) evaluation paradigm involving efficiency and task completion may not be adequate for the assessment of such applications. In this paper, we argue that unless ITV applications are evaluated with consideration for the ordinary TV viewer, they are going to be appropriate only for the computer literate user, thus excluding the TV audience from easy access to information society services. The field of media studies has accumulated an extensive theory of TV and associated methods. We applied the corresponding findings in the domain of ITV to examine how universal access to ITV applications can be obtained. By combining these results with emerging affective quality theories for interactive products, we propose a UI evaluation framework for ITV applications.

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Does Entertainment Suffer From Interactivity? The Impact of Watching an Interactive TV Movie on Viewers' Experience of Entertainment

Cited by 106 publications

References 5 publications

Early Exposures to Ecogenomics: Effects of Priming and Web Site Interactivity Among Adolescents

Early Exposures to Ecogenomics: Effects of Priming and Web Site Interactivity Among Adolescents

Subjective and behavioral presence measurement and interactivity in the collaborative augmented reality game TimeWarp

User interface evaluation of interactive TV: a media studies perspective

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