Emerging implications of virtual reality video game play on dreamsjgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I., Rai, N. & Wagner, B. (2019, June). Emerging Implications of Virtual Reality Video Game Play on Dreams. Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Kerkrade, The Netherlands.
This is a presentation by Gackenbach which summarizes her work. It was given at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams in June of 2018.
Gackenbach, J.I. (2016, June). Gaming Allows Expression of Archetypes. Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Rolduc, Netherlands. Abstract published in the International Journal of Dream Research, 9(supplement 1), July 2016, Retrieved https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/32382/pdf
Ethics and Games Series: Life Is Strange by Sherry Jones (Mar. 25, 2018)Sherry Jones
Mar. 25, 2018 - This is my philosophy and game studies presentation featuring the game, "Life is Strange (2015)," an episodic graphic adventure game developed by Dontnod Entertainment, and published by Square Enix, Feral Interactive, and Black Wing Foundation.
The presentation explores the ethics of "Life Is Strange" using the following theories (from mathematics and philosophy): Chaos Theory; Butterfly Effect; Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence Theory; Moral Dilemma.
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This presentation was featured at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Games and Simulations Network live webcast on Mar. 25, 2018.
The live webcast video was recorded and made available on Youtube, as well as made available in this presentation.
Please feel free to watch the video while exploring the presentation.
Ethics and Games Series: The Vanishing of Ethan Carter by Sherry Jones (Apr. ...Sherry Jones
About This Presentation: This is a philosophy and game studies presentation featuring the game, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (2014, 2015), a first person horror adventure game developed and published by The Astronauts.
The presentation explores the rhetoric and the ethics of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter using the following theories: Baruch Spinoza's monism.
Additional themes explored are: Conformity vs. Individuality, Fantasy vs. Reality, Child Abuse, Trauma, Confronting the Truth, Unreliable Narrator, Fragmented Memory, Memory and Identity, Memory and Truth, Multiple Consciousness, Subjectivity and Reality, Multiplicity of Truth.
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This presentation was featured at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Games and Simulations Network live webcast on April 29, 2018.
The live webcast video was recorded and made available on Youtube, as well as made available in this presentation.
Please feel free to watch the video while exploring the presentation.
Dreaming about movies and tv & other media associations to various individual...jgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I. (2018, June). Dreaming about Movies and TV Associations to Various Individual Difference Variables. Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Phoenix, AZ.
Emerging implications of virtual reality video game play on dreamsjgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I., Rai, N. & Wagner, B. (2019, June). Emerging Implications of Virtual Reality Video Game Play on Dreams. Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Kerkrade, The Netherlands.
This is a presentation by Gackenbach which summarizes her work. It was given at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams in June of 2018.
Gackenbach, J.I. (2016, June). Gaming Allows Expression of Archetypes. Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Rolduc, Netherlands. Abstract published in the International Journal of Dream Research, 9(supplement 1), July 2016, Retrieved https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/32382/pdf
Ethics and Games Series: Life Is Strange by Sherry Jones (Mar. 25, 2018)Sherry Jones
Mar. 25, 2018 - This is my philosophy and game studies presentation featuring the game, "Life is Strange (2015)," an episodic graphic adventure game developed by Dontnod Entertainment, and published by Square Enix, Feral Interactive, and Black Wing Foundation.
The presentation explores the ethics of "Life Is Strange" using the following theories (from mathematics and philosophy): Chaos Theory; Butterfly Effect; Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence Theory; Moral Dilemma.
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This presentation was featured at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Games and Simulations Network live webcast on Mar. 25, 2018.
The live webcast video was recorded and made available on Youtube, as well as made available in this presentation.
Please feel free to watch the video while exploring the presentation.
Ethics and Games Series: The Vanishing of Ethan Carter by Sherry Jones (Apr. ...Sherry Jones
About This Presentation: This is a philosophy and game studies presentation featuring the game, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (2014, 2015), a first person horror adventure game developed and published by The Astronauts.
The presentation explores the rhetoric and the ethics of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter using the following theories: Baruch Spinoza's monism.
Additional themes explored are: Conformity vs. Individuality, Fantasy vs. Reality, Child Abuse, Trauma, Confronting the Truth, Unreliable Narrator, Fragmented Memory, Memory and Identity, Memory and Truth, Multiple Consciousness, Subjectivity and Reality, Multiplicity of Truth.
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This presentation was featured at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Games and Simulations Network live webcast on April 29, 2018.
The live webcast video was recorded and made available on Youtube, as well as made available in this presentation.
Please feel free to watch the video while exploring the presentation.
Dreaming about movies and tv & other media associations to various individual...jgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I. (2018, June). Dreaming about Movies and TV Associations to Various Individual Difference Variables. Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Phoenix, AZ.
"Ethics and Games: The Talos Principle" by Sherry Jones (Feb. 25, 2018)Sherry Jones
Feb. 25, 2018 - This is my philosophy and game studies presentation featuring the game, "The Talos Principle" (2014, 2015, 2017)," a first person puzzle game developed by Croteam, and published by Devolver Digital.
The presentation explores the ethics of "The Talos Principle" using the following theories (from philosophy and mythology): Transhumanism; Posthumanism; Posthuman; Determinism; Greek Mythology; Egyptian Mythology; Free Will.
Additional topics explored are: Artificial Intelligence; Extended Lifespan; Immortality; Consciousness.
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This presentation was featured at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Games and Simulations Network live webcast on Feb. 25, 2018.
The live webcast video was recorded and made available on Youtube, as well as made available in this presentation.
Please feel free to watch the video while exploring the presentation.
China and canada a comparison of media use and dream intensityjgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I., Lee, M., Zhou, Z. & Yu, G. (2015, June). China and Canada: A Comparison of Media Use and Dream Intensity. Paper presented at International Association for the Study of Dreams, Virginia Beach, VA. Abstract published in the International Journal of Dream Research, 8(supplement 1), July 2015, Retrieved http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR.
"Narrative Design and the Psychology of Emotions and Immersion in Games" by S...Sherry Jones
Nov. 23, 2015 - This presentation discusses various psychological theories employed in game design to induce player emotions and sense of immersion.
The Metagame Book Club is a K-12 and College professional development institution that offers free webinars, discussions, live chats, and other interactive activities on the topics of game-based learning, game studies, gamification, and games in general.
Interested in joining us? Visit our website here:
The Metagame Book Club
http://bit.ly/metagamebookclub
Players Imbuing Meaning: Co-creation of Challenges in a prototype MMOMirjam Eladhari
This talk discusses how components in a game world, from both a systemic design perspective, and from an actual content perspective, can carry meaning relevant to individual players.
The discussion is grounded in work with a massively multi player online (MMO) prototype where players in guided play-tests created their own opponents that they battled in groups of three. The opponents are called Manifestations, and can be compared to the “boss monsters” that in adventureand role-plying games pose the greatest challenges in terms of tactical game play, or battle. When creating Manifestations players define how these shall behave in play, and what they say under different circumstances. The game play mechanics in the world is centered on emotions and social relations. One of the design goals in the creation of the prototype was to cater for a system wheretactical game play can be closely tied to the potential narrative contents.
The Manifestations players created in the play tests were of four main categories; reflections of persons they had complicated relationships to in real life, difficult situations, abstract concepts, or purely fictional entities. In several cases players brought material into the game that had personal meaning to them. These meanings were developed further when players saw how their Manifestation behaved within the rule system of the world. For example, one player created a Manifestation of an anticipated exam, while another made a Manifestation called “Mother”. The Mother cast spells called “Focused Aggression” and “Cold Ripple of Fear”. It was able to perform acts called “Blame”, ”Threaten”, and “Disagree”. The group experimented with tactical choices, while reasoning about the Mother’s potential motivations. They managed to overcome the Mother by alternating between giving each other resistance and casting spells, the winning stroke being a rapid series of spells called “Forgive”.
The talk was given at ITU in Copenhagen April 24, 2012 in the Game Lecture series.
http://game.itu.dk/index.php/Game_Lectures
Morning After Dreams of Video Game Play versus Meditation/Prayerjgackenb
Swanston, D. & Gackenbach, J.I. (2011, June). Morning After Dreams of Video Game Play versus Meditation/Prayer. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, The Netherlands.
"Game Design: Creating Psychological Experiences" by Sherry Jones (Nov. 12, 2...Sherry Jones
Nov. 12, 2015 - This presentation on "Game Design: Creating Psychological Experiences," is created for the Metagame Book Club.
The Metagame Book Club is a free resource for K-12 and college educators and students interested in game-based learning, gamification, and game studies. Join today!
Metagame Book Club
http://bit.ly/metagamebookclub
"Overview and Conclusions" by Sherry Jones (August 16, 2014)Sherry Jones
I am the Game Studies Facilitator for the #Metagame Book Club (http://bit.ly/metagamebookclub). This is my Week 5 Lecture on "Overview and Conclusions." This is an overview lecture of major concepts and theories I have discussed during Weeks 1-4 lectures. Please see my previous slideshows for clarification of the ideas discussed in this slideshow.
Live Video Lecture - The live recorded youtube video of this lecture is included toward the end of this presentation.
Join the Metagame Book Club - We welcome all educators interested in gaming in education, game-based learning, gamification, and game studies to join the #Metagame Book Club.
#Metagame Book Club (July 15 - August 16, 2014)
http://bit.ly/metagamebookclub
Find us on various social media with the hashtag, #Metagame
"Prototyping Immersive Game Design as Interactive Fiction" by Sherry Jones (N...Sherry Jones
November 19, 2015 - This is a presentation on creating Interactive Fiction (IF) works as initial prototypes for large scale games. This presentation is created for the Metagame Book Club - Track 1 - Games & Psychology track. The presentation includes the live webcast recording.
Also featured in this video is Ross Moreno, the Leader Writer for 4th Axis Games (indie game studio).
The Metagame Book Club is a K-12 and College professional development institution that offers free webinars, discussions, live chats, and other interactive activities on the topics of game-based learning, game studies, gamification, and games in general.
Interested in joining us? Visit our website here:
The Metagame Book Club
http://bit.ly/metagamebookclub
Video game play and nightmare protection hypothesisjgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I. (2015, June). Video Game Play and Nightmare Protection Hypothesis: A Cross Cultural Analysis. Paper presented at the Towards a Science of Consciousness conference, Helsinki, Finland.
The Psychology of the Player & Game Character Design and Representation by Sh...Sherry Jones
Dec. 6, 2015 - This presentation explores many psychological theories that can help us understand how players think, and how game characters should be designed.
The Metagame Book Club is a K-12 and College professional development institution that offers free webinars, discussions, live chats, and other interactive activities on the topics of game-based learning, game studies, gamification, and games in general.
Interested in joining us? Visit our website here:
The Metagame Book Club
http://bit.ly/metagamebookclub
This is a presentation made at the annual meeting of the Canadian Game Studies Association. A version of it will also be presented at the International Association for the Study of Dreams later in June.
Introduzione alla realizzazione di videogiochi - MeccanichePier Luca Lanzi
Slide del corso "Introduzione alla realizzazione di videogiochi" tenuto per gli studenti delle scuole superiori presso la sede di Cremona del Politecnico di Milano.
"Epistemic Game Design for Collaborative Inquiry and Civic Engagement" by She...Sherry Jones
Aug. 5, 2015 - This is my presentation on epistemic game design for the 2015 Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference (COLTT).
Through this slideshow, we introduce the epistemic game, "The Perspective Game" by GetTheIssues(GTI) to educators and administrators of higher education.
Individual differences in dreams and video game play 2018jgackenb
This is a paper presentation to both The Canadian Game Studies meeting and the International Association for the Study of Dreams meeting. Both were in 2018.
Games as Logic Machines: Learning the Humanities through the Logic and Parate...Sherry Jones
Jan. 8, 2016 - This is my keynote presentation on game studies and game-based learning in the humanities for CU Boulder's Spring 2016 Graduate Teacher Program Conference: "Teaching Narrative, Ludology, and Problem-Solving in the College Classroom."
Here is the transcript to my presentation:
https://medium.com/@autnes/transcript-games-as-logic-machines-learning-the-humanities-through-the-logic-and-paratextuality-fc604aa6046c#.n12hb28gk
Gackenbach, J.I. (2009, June). Dreams and Video Game Play. Planary Session paper presented at Toward a Science of Consciousness : Investigating Inner Experience – Brain, Mind, Technology, Hong Kong, China
"Ethics and Games: The Talos Principle" by Sherry Jones (Feb. 25, 2018)Sherry Jones
Feb. 25, 2018 - This is my philosophy and game studies presentation featuring the game, "The Talos Principle" (2014, 2015, 2017)," a first person puzzle game developed by Croteam, and published by Devolver Digital.
The presentation explores the ethics of "The Talos Principle" using the following theories (from philosophy and mythology): Transhumanism; Posthumanism; Posthuman; Determinism; Greek Mythology; Egyptian Mythology; Free Will.
Additional topics explored are: Artificial Intelligence; Extended Lifespan; Immortality; Consciousness.
------------------------------------------------------------
This presentation was featured at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Games and Simulations Network live webcast on Feb. 25, 2018.
The live webcast video was recorded and made available on Youtube, as well as made available in this presentation.
Please feel free to watch the video while exploring the presentation.
China and canada a comparison of media use and dream intensityjgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I., Lee, M., Zhou, Z. & Yu, G. (2015, June). China and Canada: A Comparison of Media Use and Dream Intensity. Paper presented at International Association for the Study of Dreams, Virginia Beach, VA. Abstract published in the International Journal of Dream Research, 8(supplement 1), July 2015, Retrieved http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR.
"Narrative Design and the Psychology of Emotions and Immersion in Games" by S...Sherry Jones
Nov. 23, 2015 - This presentation discusses various psychological theories employed in game design to induce player emotions and sense of immersion.
The Metagame Book Club is a K-12 and College professional development institution that offers free webinars, discussions, live chats, and other interactive activities on the topics of game-based learning, game studies, gamification, and games in general.
Interested in joining us? Visit our website here:
The Metagame Book Club
http://bit.ly/metagamebookclub
Players Imbuing Meaning: Co-creation of Challenges in a prototype MMOMirjam Eladhari
This talk discusses how components in a game world, from both a systemic design perspective, and from an actual content perspective, can carry meaning relevant to individual players.
The discussion is grounded in work with a massively multi player online (MMO) prototype where players in guided play-tests created their own opponents that they battled in groups of three. The opponents are called Manifestations, and can be compared to the “boss monsters” that in adventureand role-plying games pose the greatest challenges in terms of tactical game play, or battle. When creating Manifestations players define how these shall behave in play, and what they say under different circumstances. The game play mechanics in the world is centered on emotions and social relations. One of the design goals in the creation of the prototype was to cater for a system wheretactical game play can be closely tied to the potential narrative contents.
The Manifestations players created in the play tests were of four main categories; reflections of persons they had complicated relationships to in real life, difficult situations, abstract concepts, or purely fictional entities. In several cases players brought material into the game that had personal meaning to them. These meanings were developed further when players saw how their Manifestation behaved within the rule system of the world. For example, one player created a Manifestation of an anticipated exam, while another made a Manifestation called “Mother”. The Mother cast spells called “Focused Aggression” and “Cold Ripple of Fear”. It was able to perform acts called “Blame”, ”Threaten”, and “Disagree”. The group experimented with tactical choices, while reasoning about the Mother’s potential motivations. They managed to overcome the Mother by alternating between giving each other resistance and casting spells, the winning stroke being a rapid series of spells called “Forgive”.
The talk was given at ITU in Copenhagen April 24, 2012 in the Game Lecture series.
http://game.itu.dk/index.php/Game_Lectures
Morning After Dreams of Video Game Play versus Meditation/Prayerjgackenb
Swanston, D. & Gackenbach, J.I. (2011, June). Morning After Dreams of Video Game Play versus Meditation/Prayer. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, The Netherlands.
"Game Design: Creating Psychological Experiences" by Sherry Jones (Nov. 12, 2...Sherry Jones
Nov. 12, 2015 - This presentation on "Game Design: Creating Psychological Experiences," is created for the Metagame Book Club.
The Metagame Book Club is a free resource for K-12 and college educators and students interested in game-based learning, gamification, and game studies. Join today!
Metagame Book Club
http://bit.ly/metagamebookclub
"Overview and Conclusions" by Sherry Jones (August 16, 2014)Sherry Jones
I am the Game Studies Facilitator for the #Metagame Book Club (http://bit.ly/metagamebookclub). This is my Week 5 Lecture on "Overview and Conclusions." This is an overview lecture of major concepts and theories I have discussed during Weeks 1-4 lectures. Please see my previous slideshows for clarification of the ideas discussed in this slideshow.
Live Video Lecture - The live recorded youtube video of this lecture is included toward the end of this presentation.
Join the Metagame Book Club - We welcome all educators interested in gaming in education, game-based learning, gamification, and game studies to join the #Metagame Book Club.
#Metagame Book Club (July 15 - August 16, 2014)
http://bit.ly/metagamebookclub
Find us on various social media with the hashtag, #Metagame
"Prototyping Immersive Game Design as Interactive Fiction" by Sherry Jones (N...Sherry Jones
November 19, 2015 - This is a presentation on creating Interactive Fiction (IF) works as initial prototypes for large scale games. This presentation is created for the Metagame Book Club - Track 1 - Games & Psychology track. The presentation includes the live webcast recording.
Also featured in this video is Ross Moreno, the Leader Writer for 4th Axis Games (indie game studio).
The Metagame Book Club is a K-12 and College professional development institution that offers free webinars, discussions, live chats, and other interactive activities on the topics of game-based learning, game studies, gamification, and games in general.
Interested in joining us? Visit our website here:
The Metagame Book Club
http://bit.ly/metagamebookclub
Video game play and nightmare protection hypothesisjgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I. (2015, June). Video Game Play and Nightmare Protection Hypothesis: A Cross Cultural Analysis. Paper presented at the Towards a Science of Consciousness conference, Helsinki, Finland.
The Psychology of the Player & Game Character Design and Representation by Sh...Sherry Jones
Dec. 6, 2015 - This presentation explores many psychological theories that can help us understand how players think, and how game characters should be designed.
The Metagame Book Club is a K-12 and College professional development institution that offers free webinars, discussions, live chats, and other interactive activities on the topics of game-based learning, game studies, gamification, and games in general.
Interested in joining us? Visit our website here:
The Metagame Book Club
http://bit.ly/metagamebookclub
This is a presentation made at the annual meeting of the Canadian Game Studies Association. A version of it will also be presented at the International Association for the Study of Dreams later in June.
Introduzione alla realizzazione di videogiochi - MeccanichePier Luca Lanzi
Slide del corso "Introduzione alla realizzazione di videogiochi" tenuto per gli studenti delle scuole superiori presso la sede di Cremona del Politecnico di Milano.
"Epistemic Game Design for Collaborative Inquiry and Civic Engagement" by She...Sherry Jones
Aug. 5, 2015 - This is my presentation on epistemic game design for the 2015 Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference (COLTT).
Through this slideshow, we introduce the epistemic game, "The Perspective Game" by GetTheIssues(GTI) to educators and administrators of higher education.
Individual differences in dreams and video game play 2018jgackenb
This is a paper presentation to both The Canadian Game Studies meeting and the International Association for the Study of Dreams meeting. Both were in 2018.
Games as Logic Machines: Learning the Humanities through the Logic and Parate...Sherry Jones
Jan. 8, 2016 - This is my keynote presentation on game studies and game-based learning in the humanities for CU Boulder's Spring 2016 Graduate Teacher Program Conference: "Teaching Narrative, Ludology, and Problem-Solving in the College Classroom."
Here is the transcript to my presentation:
https://medium.com/@autnes/transcript-games-as-logic-machines-learning-the-humanities-through-the-logic-and-paratextuality-fc604aa6046c#.n12hb28gk
Gackenbach, J.I. (2009, June). Dreams and Video Game Play. Planary Session paper presented at Toward a Science of Consciousness : Investigating Inner Experience – Brain, Mind, Technology, Hong Kong, China
Gackenbach, J.I., Darlington, M. & Ferguson, M. (2012, April). Video Game Play as Nightmare Protection. Paper presented at the biannual Towards a Science of Consciousness conference, Tucson, AZ.
Video game play as nightmare protection a preliminary inquiry on military gam...jgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I., Hall, C. & Ellerman, E. (2011, June). Video Game Play as Nightmare Protection: A Preliminary Inquiry on Military Gamers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, The Netherlands.
An inquiry into the lack of nightmare protection associated with video game p...jgackenb
Boyes, A. & Gackenbach, J.I. (2015, May). An Inquiry into the Lack of Nightmare Protection Associated with Video Game Play by Female Gamers, Paper presented at Digital Diversity: Writing, Feminism and Culure, Edmonton, AB.
Nightmare protection as motivation to play video gamesjgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I. (2013, June). Nightmare protection as motivation to play video games. Paper presented at the preconference of the game studies division of the International Communication Association, London, England.
Nightmare protection hypothesis and female gamersjgackenb
Boyes, A. & Gackenbach, J.I. (2014, June). Nightmare Protection Hypothesis and Female Gamers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Berkley, CA. Abstract published in the International Journal of Dream Research, http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/issue/view/1703.
Experts versus trained dream coders does it make a differencejgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I., Ferguson, M., Darlington, M., Flockhart, C., Swanson, D. & Ahlswede, S. (2012, June). Experts versus trained dream coders: Does it make a difference? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Berkeley, CA.
We think in stories. Narratives are tools we use to make sense of the world, both in life and in games. Seeing how all stories work in a similiar way, and how all gameplay loops share their structure with stories, we will explore the similarities and look for tools that will help us design better games. This talk, inspired by John Yorke's book "Into the Woods. How stories work and why we tell them", and based on over ten years of experience in the industry, aims to present a consistent narrative-driven approach to game design.
A talk from Digital Dragons 2018
This is the presentation by Carson Flockhart on his research into the nightmare protection effect presented at the Canadian Game Studies Association meeting in 2015 in Calgary, AB.
Gackenbach, J.I. & Guthrie, G. (2016, June). Contemplative Practice versus Gaming. Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Rolduc, Netherlands. Abstract published in the International Journal of Dream Research, 9(supplement 1), July 2016, Retrieved https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/32382/pdf
Distrust your intuition! The principles popularized by Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow” apply to game designers as much as anyone. What to look out for and how to mitigate the effect of these pervasive biases.
These are the slides from my invited address on Dreams and Art given at the annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Ashland, OR, June 2023. It is a first person account of a seven year dream diary and art journal using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Cognitive Evaluation of Video Games: Players' Perceptions jgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I. & Rosie, M. (2009, May). Cognitive Evaluation of Video Games: Players Perceptions. Poster presented at Future Play 2009, Vancouver, BC.
Dream and Blog Content Analysis of a Video Gamers Long Term Diary jgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I., Sample, T., Mandel, G., Tomashewsky, M., Kuchinsky, M. & Masliuk, K. (2010, June). Dream and Blog Content Analysis of a Video Gamers Long Term Diary. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Ashville, North Carolina.
Dream Incorporation of Video Game Play: Interactivity, Fidelity and Presence. jgackenb
Rosie, M., Gackenbach, J.I., Bown, J. & Sample, T. (2010, June). Dream Incorporation of Video Game Play: Interactivity, Fidelity and Presence. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Ashville, North Carolina.
Dream use in various courses to various cultural groupsjgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I. (2010, June). Dream Use in Various Courses to Various Cultural Groups. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Ashville, North Carolina.
Long term online dream diary of an OCD gamerjgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I., Masiuk, K. & Sample, T. (2010, June). Long Term Online Dream Diary of an OCD Individual. Paper presented as part of a symposium Research into the Dreams of Several Clinical Groups, at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Ashville, North Carolina.
History of gaming and gaming daily activities associated with nightmaresjgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I., Ferguson, M., Mathewson, K., & Darlington, M. (2012, June). History of gaming and daily activities as predictors of nightmares. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Berkeley, CA.
Threat and central image in dreams student and soldier gamersjgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I., Darlington, M., & Ferguson, M. (2012, June). Threat and Central Image in Dreams: Student and Soldier Gamers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Berkeley, CA.
Gackenbach, J.I. (2012, April). Video Game Play and Consciousness. Presentation in the form of a talk and two posters at the biannual Towards a Science of Consciousness conference, Tucson, AZ.
Gackenbach, J.I. (2014, June). Role of Dreaming in AI-Human Interactions (Presentation within symposium “Machine Dreaming “).Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Berkley, CA. Abstract published in the International Journal of Dream Research, http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/issue/view/1703.
From lucid to gaming dreams: So what is the fabric of reality?jgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I. (2014, June). From Lucid to Gaming Dreams: So What Is the Fabric of Reality? (Presentation within symposium “Being Transformed by Lucid Dreaming Research”). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Berkley, CA. Abstract published in the International Journal of Dream Research, http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/issue/view/1703.
Self-Construal, Media Use and Dreams between Canadians of Differing Cultural ...jgackenb
Gahr, S. & Gackenbach, J.I. (2014, June). Self-Construal, Media Use and Dreams between Canadians of Differing Cultural Backgrounds. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Berkley, CA. Abstract published in the International Journal of Dream Research, http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/issue/view/1703.
Video Game Nightmare Protection: An Experimental Inquiry. jgackenb
Flockhart, C. Gackenbach, J.I. & Ditner, A. (2014, June). Video Game Nightmare Protection: An Experimental Inquiry. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Berkley, CA. Abstract published in the International Journal of Dream Research, http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/issue/view/1703.
Culture media use and dreams china and canadajgackenb
Gackenbach, J.I. (2015, May). Culture, Media Use and Dreams: China and Canada. Paper presented at Digital Diversity: Writing, Feminism and Culture, Edmonton, Alberta.
Relationship between Presence in Virtual Reality Game Play and Dreamsjgackenb
Sinyard, A., Gackenbach, J.I., Yu, Y. & Hakopdjanian, S. (2015, June). Relationship between Presence in Virtual Reality Game Play and Dreams. Paper presented at International Association for the Study of Dreams, Virginia Beach, VA. Abstract published in the International Journal of Dream Research, 8(supplement 1), July 2015, Retrieved http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR.
Oculus Rift Effects on Presence and Dreams: Replication and Extensionjgackenb
Boopalan, A., White, E. & Gackenbach, J.I. (2016, June). Oculus Rift Effects on Presence and Dreams: Replication and Extension. Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Rolduc, Netherlands. Abstract published in the International Journal of Dream Research, 9(supplement 1), July 2016, Retrieved https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/32382/pdf
Nightmare protection an experimental inquiryjgackenb
Flockhart, C., Gackenbach, J.I., & Ditner, A. (2015, June). Nightmare protection: An experimental inquiry. Paper presented at the Towards a Science of Consciousness conference, Helsinki, Finland.
Video game play and nightmare protection hypothesis a cross cultural analysis.jgackenb
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Dreams and video game play games cgsa 2010
1. Dreams and Video Game Play
Jayne Gackenbach
Athabasca University
2010 Canadian Game Studies Association
Montreal, Quebec
gackenbachj@macewan.ca
Gackenbach, J.I. (2010, May). Dreams and Video Game Play. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Game Studies
Association, Montreal.
2. Why are dreams important?
• Rich history across most cultures
• Royal road to the unconscious – Freud
– While opened up dreams as important, he also
pathologized them
• With discovery of REM sleep and the sleep
laboratory, dreams entered science
• While not local only to REM, those that are
most recalled and most often puzzled about
are typically REM dreams
3. Why are dreams important?
• Function of dreams increasingly clear
– Evolutionary threat/play (Revonsuo; Humphrey)
– Emotional Regulation, especially negative
emotions (Kramer; Nielsen; Zadra)
– Memory integration & consolidation (Stickgold)
– Problem-solving, creative inspiration (Barrett)
– Metacognition (LaBerge; Kahan; Kahn)
• All this serves personal and interpersonal
needs if shared and processed
4. • Media saturated society
– Video game play represents the most immersive and
interactive media experience
• Isn’t it all just incorporation?
– Yes gamers dream about games
– And no,
• Example of value of studying gamers dreams...
Why study gamers dreams?
Gamers dreams show fundamental
structural differences
5. Presence in Games and Dreams
• Dreams have been called the “gold standard”
for presence (sense of being there) in VR and
games (Revonsuo; Moller & Barbera)
• Never measured until now (Gackenbach &
Rosie, 2010)
– Played Mirror’s Edge before sleep in lab
– Gathered dreams for next two weeks
– Presence measured after game and after dreams
6. • Presence sum score NO DIFFERENCE
• Items (12) got 4 differences 8 NO DIFFERENCE:
– The dream/game caused real feelings and emotions for me.
(Dream > Game)
– Overall how much did the things/people in the dream/game
look like they would if you had experienced them in waking
reality? (Dream > Game)
– How much did you feel like the events of the dream/game
were happening to you? (Dream > Game)
– How often did you feel "My body was in bed, but my mind was
inside my dream" or "My body was in this room, but my mind
was inside the environment I saw/heard"? (Game > Dream)
Presence in Games and Dreams
7. Gamer Defined
• Play video games on average several times a
week
• Typical playing session more than 1 or 2 hours
• Played 50 or more video games over your
lifetime
• Been playing video games since before grade
three
Type of Game Preferred only considered in latest
studies, seemed to make no difference 5 years ago
9. Lucid – Control Dreams
• Gackenbach, J.I. (2006). Video game play and lucid
dreams: Implications for the development of
consciousness. Dreaming, 16(2), 96-110.
• Gackenbach, J.I. & Kuruvilla, B. (2008). Video game
play effects on dreams: Self-evaluation and content
analysis. Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game
Culture. 2(2), 169-186.
• Gackenbach, J.I. (2009). Video Game Play and
Consciousness Development: A Replication and
Extension. International Journal of Dream Research,
2(1), 3-11.
10. Lucid – Control Dreams & Gaming
• Subject #014: Lucidity triggered by an event
Michael: Well, once Jean Grey (a marvel comic
and video game character) got loose and started
killing people, I was like this is really weird this is
probably a dream and it was like right after that she
showed up and I told myself that I need to wake
up. I thought that something bad was supposed to
happen and I didn’t want it to happen so I should
wake up.
Gackenbach, et al. (2009)
11. Control Dreaming
In Class Data Collection
2.05
2.1
2.15
2.2
2.25
2.3
2.35
2.4
2.45
2.5
Low Video
Game Play
Medium Video
Game Play
High Video
Game Play
ControlDreaming
2=
rarely
3=
sometimes
12. In Class Data Collection
2.3
2.35
2.4
2.45
2.5
2.55
2.6
2.65
2.7
2.75
Low Video
Game Play
Medium Video
Game Play
High Video
Game Play
LucidDreamingFrequency
Lucid Dreaming
2=
rarely
3=
sometimes
14. Methodological Refinement
• Previous studies long term retrospective memory
• Collected Dream report and when
• Normal sleep length and rested amount
• Questions on media use history and media used
the day before dream
• Questions reflecting about dream reported
• Dreams (N=152) for analysis were chosen if:
– Last night
– Rested (had typical amount of sleep)
15. Factor 1
Clarity of dream -.001
Lucidity .391
Type of Observer (hi=3rd per) .121
Control .527
Nightmare .185
Electronic media .025
mean of audio only media (phone, radio, CD/mp3) .436
mean of audio and video media (TV/DVD, movie) .413
mean of interactive media (computer/internet, vid gm) .718
gamer groups (0 = non-gamer, 1 = low, 2 = mod, 3 = high) .653
Last night, rested dreams, N = 152
Principal Component Factor Analysis
on Dream, Gamer and Media Use
16. Parallels video gaming/lucidity
• Video game Play
1. video games
technologically
constructed
alternative realities
2. Video gaming has been
associated with
improved spatial skills
3. Low motion sickness
needed to play a lot
4. High absorption is
reported by players
• Lucid/control dreams
1. Dream worlds
biologically constructed
alternative realities
2. Lucid dreamers show
better spatial skills
3. Lucid dreamers have
better vestibular
systems (not susceptible
to motion sickness)
4. Meditation is highly
associated with lucidity
and is training in
developing one pointed
absorption
Self selection?
Yes and No
17. Bottom Line
• Gaming is too wide
spread to reduce to
purely self selection
• There is increasing
social pressure to play
• Gaming is only one
part of our networked
life
Percent growth in US 2006-2007
18. Original Dream Content Analysis
• Hall &Van de Castle Coding System
• Frequency equals intensity
• High inter-rater reliability
• Well developed norms
• Uses categories which are pertinent to waking
concerns that may influence dreaming.
• Those that lead to further research were:
• characters, aggression and misfortune.
• Gackenbach, J.I., Matty, I., Kuruvilla, B., Samaha, A. N., Zederayko, A.,
Olischefski, J. & Von Stackelberg, H. (2009). Video game play: Waking and
dreaming consciousness. S. Krippner (Ed.), Perchance To Dream, Hauppauge,
NY: Nova Science Publishers, p. 239-253.
27 gamers
56 dreams
male norms
19. Significant Differences
from Male Norms
More dead or imaginary
characters appearing in
dream reports (21% vs
0%).
Why be human in a
game? They have fewer
powers than other types
of creatures.
20. Dead or Imaginary Characters
Subject 001- Dream 11
“I dreamt I was a character is Underworld 2, it was a
werewolf character and then I became a 3rd person. It
was the two main characters, it was the vampire girl
and a hybrid werewolf character and I was another
werewolf character beside them and we went into a
vampire coven and we got to the weapons section of
the vampire coven and then I woke up”
• Later looked at bizarreness due
to this finding
21. Dream Aggression
• Smaller number of
dreams with
aggression (32% vs
47%)
• Yet more intense
aggression (namely
physical aggression,
86% vs 50%) when it
happened
22. Dream Aggression Example
Subject 002- Dream 6
“… I went outside … with my cat and shot these
criminals that were trying to eat my dad and they were
on top of my dad trying to eat his arms and he was
fighting them off, and they were trying to hold him
down and bite his shoulders and there was blood and
stuff. And it was a very graphic shootout for a dream; it
was very blood and guts ya know? And when I ran out
of ammunition there was like pistol whipping and stuff
going on and that one sticks out in my mind because it
was very graphic…”.
23. Dream Misfortunes Fewer
Misfortunes
(7% vs 36%)
Fewer Bodily
Misfortunes
(0% vs 29%)
Thus less victim /more control
Aggression and
misfortune
findings lead to
threat simulation
and nightmare
questions
24. Dream Bizarreness
• Gackenbach, J. I., Kuruvilla, B., & Dopko, R.
(2009). Video game play and dream
bizarreness. Dreaming, 19(4), 218-231.
• Gackenbach, J.I. & Dopko, R. (in submission).
The Relationship between Video Game Play,
Dream Bizarreness, and Creativity.
Consciousness and Cognition.
25. • Domhoff – 2007 meta-
analysis
– dreams are more coherent,
patterned and thoughtful
than previously suggested
– still some bizarreness in
adult dreams
– far less than what was
expected based
Illusion of Dream Bizarreness
26. Methods
• Study 1: Recent Dreams
–Self reported dream questions
–Various media use information
• Study 2: Two Week Online Dream Diary
–Features that were bizarre for subject
–Various media use information
– Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT)
• Verbal and the figural tests
• Revonsuo & Salmivalli Content Analysis
27. Covariates: sex, # words in dream, # hours of video game play day before dream
Dreams were 279 from low end gamers and 162 from high end gamers
Unusual
(subject)
Bizarre
(judges)
Non-bizarre
(judges)
Low Game Group High Game Group
28. Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
• No gamer group difference for verbal test
• Significant differences for figural test
favoring high gamer group
29. 1 2 3 4 5
Game history sum of z-scores -.317 .748 -.260 .097 -.026
Mean # hours played video game pre-dreams -.304 .699 -.188 -.125 -.156
Sex of subject (1=M; 2=F) .402 -.640 .282 -.115 -.047
Average number of words in dreams .885 .183 -.145 .095 -.050
Number of dream reported in diary .490 .213 .135 .518 .117
Dream recall sum of z-scores -.158 .150 .256 .652 .282
Discontinuous bizarreness mean .708 .256 -.102 -.294 -.210
Vague bizarreness mean .350 .168 -.409 .016 .656
Incongrous overall bizarreness mean .647 .473 .075 -.302 .085
Non-bizarreness mean .813 -.038 .054 .266 -.222
Average of sums of dream unusual elements .016 .240 .572 -.422 .534
Verbal creativity sum .005 .186 .799 .007 -.037
Figural creativity sum -.097 .563 .428 .073 -.331
Gaming, Bizarreness & Creativity
30. Factor Analysis on Game Play, Lucid
Related Dream & Bizarreness Variables
Video game history (freq, length, # games, age begin) .760 -.214 .377 .101
Video Games played day before dream .694 -.127 .467 -.025
Recent Dream - Lucidity .305 -.258 -.746 -.158
Recent Dream - Type of Observer (Hi=observer) .271 -.028 -.060 -.806
Recent Dream - Control .570 -.239 -.447 .215
nonbizarreness mean .071 .706 -.035 -.119
vagueness variables mean .322 .371 .129 .196
discontinuous mean .047 .642 -.187 .242
Incongruous distorted sum .324 .384 -.043 -.311
Incongruous exotic sum .378 .482 -.159 .051
Incongruous impossible sum .282 -.121 -.243 .355
Gackenbach, J.I. & Hunt, H. (2010, April). Video Game Play and Lucid Dreaming as Socially
Constructed Meditative Absorption. Paper to be presented at the biannual meeting entitled
"Toward a Science of Consciousness" sponsored by the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
31. Nightmares & Threat Simulation
• Gackenbach, J.I. & Kuruvilla, B. (2008). The
relationship between video game play and
threat simulation dreams. Dreaming, 18(4),
236-256.
32. Threat Simulation Theory
• dreaming is an adaptive process with an
evolutionary foundation (Revonsuo, 2000).
• dreaming allows us to simulate threatening
situations in the safety of a virtual
environment of dreams.
• continued practice would allow an individual
to better prepare for these possibly dangerous
instances, were they to arise in the waking
world
33. Dreams Collected
• Online Questionnaires
• night before dreams only,
– average hours since dream to recollection being
under one hour
• minimum word count of 40 words
• 98 participants/dreams
– 35 males
– 63 females
34. 1 2
Sex of subject: Male=1; female=2 -.011 -.589
Z-score for gamer type -.015 .453
Mean objective rating of video game .040 .901
Percent of maximum length of play score .047 .817
Type of game sum favorite + current -.029 .458
Mean for TV violence rating .368 .132
Mean movie violence rating .333 .189
Threat simulation present=2, absent=1 .917 -.090
Nature of threat recoded no harm to aggressive .903 -.060
Sum of the number of threats from target threat .936 -.080
Severity of threat recoded, none to life threat .908 -.097
Dream recall .119 .085
Lucidity in dream -.062 .129
Observer point of view in dream .137 -.074
Control in dream .143 .054
Was dream a nightmare .690 -.023
Dream scariness .526 -.034
Dream violence .511 .314
Principle
Component
Factor
Analysis of
Media,
Threat
Simulation
Intensity,
and Dream
Self
Evaluation
Variables
35. Nightmares versus Bad Dreams
• Le, H. & Gackenbach, J. (2009). Nightmares of
Video Game Players: What do They Look Like?
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
International Association for the Study of
Dreams, Chicago, ILL.
36. Method
• Participants
– 231 low- and 222 high end gamers
• Instruments
– Media usage questionnaire
– Impactful dreams questionnaire (Lucid,
Nightmares, Mystical, and Bad dreams)
• Content Analysis
– Hall and Van de Castle’s method for content
analysis (HVDC)
37. HVDC Aggression Sum Score
Gaming Groups (1=low; 2=high)
2.001.00
EstimatedMarginalMeans
1.75
1.50
1.25
1.00
0.75
2.00
1.00
1=bad 2=ntmr
Estimated Marginal Means of aggression sum
Nightmares
Bad Dreams
Low Game Group High Game Group
38. HVDC Misfortune Sum Score
Gaming Groups (1=low; 2=high)
2.001.00
EstimatedMarginalMeans
0.3
0.25
0.2
0.15
0.1
2.00
1.00
1=bad 2=ntmr
Estimated Marginal Means of misfortune body
Bad Dreams
Nightmares
Low Game Group High Game Group
39. Judge Rated Emotionality (HVDC)
• Consistent findings with previous
research
• Nightmares had more negative
emotions than bad dreams
• No interaction with gaming group
40. Self-Rated Emotionality Scale of
Dream
• Self rated emotions: anger, awe, sexual
arousal, anxiety, fear, guilt, frustration,
sadness, hatred, happiness, jealousy, and
embarrassment
• Negative emotions (anxiety, frustration, and
fear) were found to be higher in bad dreams
for high-end gamers
• While positive emotions (sexual arousal and
happiness) were found to be greater in
nightmares for high end gamers!!!
41. Hall & Van de Castle Content Analysis of Lucid vs
Nonlucid Dreams of Gamers from 4 Previous Studies
Gender Dream Row totals
male Lucid 53
male nonlucid 219
female Lucid 27
female nonlucid 131
total 430
Gackenbach, J.I. & Hunt, H. (2010, April). Video Game Play and Lucid Dreaming as Socially
Constructed Meditative Absorption. Paper to be presented at the biannual meeting entitled
"Toward a Science of Consciousness" sponsored by the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
42. Lucidity Dream Type Differences among Gamers
Significant difference variables All gamers
Nonlucids
All gamers
Lucids
Social Interaction Percents
Aggressor Percent 26% 44%
Settings
Familiar Setting Percent 50% 35%
Self-Concept Percents
Self-Negativity Percent 85% 65%
Dreamer-Involved Success Percent 38% 77%
Dreams with at Least One:
Sexuality 03% 10%
Success 07% 14%
43. Participant - Observer Gamer
Opinion of how video games enter into dreams
• Lucidity, bizarreness, yes.
• Aggression, sometimes.
• nightmares very rare
• 3rd person
“I’ve just noticed that sometimes I’m just there as a hovering
spirit watching things go on and I don’t really have a role … I
don’t even pop up in my dreams, it’s just like I’m watching a
movie … I feel emotion definitely regardless of whether or not
I’m the person involved” – s16
44. Conclusions & Implications
• Lucidity/control
– Do these preliminary results imply that
lucid/control dreaming will become widespread
given the saturation of media?
• Bizarreness
– Are gamers semantic networks more diverse?
• Aggression/Threat Simulation
– Does gaming protect the person against
nightmares?
45. For more information....
• Email for slides and/or papers:
– gackenbachj@macewan.ca or www.slideshare.com
• Some of presentation summarized in this book
chapter
– Gackenbach, J.I., Kuruvilla, B., Dopko, R. & Le, H.
(2010). Chapter 5: Dreams and video game play. In F.
Columbus (Ed.), Computer Games: Learning
Objectives, Cognitive Performance and Effects on
Development, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science
Publishers.
Editor's Notes
As just seen in the bizarreness study, in several studies, with increasing methodological sophistication, Lucid/control dreams and gaming have been found to be associated. Here is an example – push audio button
Video gaming is one of the fastest growing entertainment industries with revenues arguably the same as or greater than the movie industry depending on how you count. Therefore gaming is too wide spread to reduce to purely self selection. There is something enticing about being in virtual worlds and there is increasing social pressure to play.
In this factor analysis there are three types of variables: gaming, dream type, and dream bizarreness. Gaming is entered both as history of game play (sum of z-scores of frequency of play, length of play, number of games played and age begun playing) and as day before the dream game play. Dreamers were asked to identify if the dream was lucid, had a third person perspective (observer) and controlablity. Finally subscales from the Revonsuo and Salmivalli scale were entered. It can be seen that gaming was associated with and without lucidity-control but with lucidity-control you have bizarreness. Thus the notion of gaming as mythological re-enactment is supported at a deeply unconscious level.
In order to further delve into the lucidity/gamer relationship let’s now turn our attention to a content analysis of Lucid vs Nonlucid Dreams of Gamers from 4 Previous Studies. We used the Hall & Van de Castle Content Analysis system. While not as many female as male dreams nor as many lucid as nonlucid dreams still there is enough to consider if there are differences WITHIN GAMERS between their lucid and their nonlucid dreams.
Using Schneider and Domhoff’s SAT spreadsheet, we found that lucid dreams for gamers were more aggressive than their nonlucid dreams. The settings were less familiar. There was less self negativity with more general success and dreamer involved success. Finally there was more sexual elements in these gamers dreams.
In short, these are the differences one would expect with lucid-control dreaming, in which lucid dreams deliberately tend toward an overall much more positive dream atmosphere. Although there was no differences in dream types in dream emotions that reached significance.
The one apparent exception is the higher physical aggression in lucid than in non-lucid dreams of gamers. However, given the otherwise positive dream experience, it is likely that the gamers themselves view their often consciously deliberate aggression in these lucid dreams positively, much as they do in gaming.