Console Gaming Across Generations: Exploring Intergenerational Interactions in Collocated Console Gaming

Voida, A. and Greenberg, S. (2012)
Console Gaming Across Generations: Exploring Intergenerational Interactions in Collocated Console Gaming. Universal Access in the Information Society Journal - JUAICS, 11(1):45-56. Springer, March. Special Issue: The Intergenerational Context as an Emphasis for Design, (Guest Editors: Dave Harley, Frank Vetere, Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Sri Kurniawan). Earlier version as with different title as Report 2009-932-110.

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Abstract

In this paper, we examine the intergenerational gaming practices of four generations of console gamers, from ages 3 to 83 and, in particular, the roles that gamers of different generations take on when playing together in groups. Our data highlight the extent to which existing gaming technologies support interactions within collocated intergenerational groups and our analysis reveals a more generationally flexible suite of roles in these computer-mediated interactions than have been documented by previous studies of more traditional collocated, intergenerational interactions. Finally, we offer implications for game designers who wish to make console games more accessible to intergenerational groups.

Keywords

Intergenerational gaming, console games, video games, Wii, Playstation

Bibtex entry

@ARTICLE { 2011-IntergenerationalGaming.JUAIS,
CLASS = { JOURNAL },
AUTHOR = { Voida, A. and Greenberg, S. },
TITLE = { Console Gaming Across Generations: Exploring Intergenerational Interactions in Collocated Console Gaming },
YEAR = { 2012 },
MONTH = { March },
JOURNAL = { Universal Access in the Information Society Journal - JUAICS },
VOLUME = { 11 },
NUMBER = { 1 },
PAGES = { 45-56 },
URL = { http://www.springerlink.com/content/052311734n297gp7/ },
DOI = { 10.1007/s10209-011-0232-1 },
PUBLISHER = { Springer },
KEYWORDS = { Intergenerational gaming, console games, video games, Wii, Playstation },
NOTE = { Special Issue: The Intergenerational Context as an Emphasis for Design, (Guest Editors: Dave Harley, Frank Vetere, Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Sri Kurniawan). Earlier version as with different title as Report 2009-932-110 },
}