Immersive Concept from The Visually Impaired Point of View

A computer game is an indoor activity that required less physical movement. The
games become more interesting with the help from graphical and audio presentation
of the games. However, for the blind user they only depend on the audio instruction
in order to play computer games. Besides that, they need to be provided with the
sufficient information on the rules and regulation of the game so that the blind user
will be well informed on how to play the games. Insufficient information and poor
audio instruction will make the blind user reluctant to play the computer games.
Therefore, if the blind user is uninterested to continue playing with the games, it will
be hard for them to enter the immersive state. This paper will study about how the
immersive concept in blind user point of view. The objective of this paper is to
determine the attributes of immersion and group the user into level of immersion
based on the criteria of immersion present while playing computer games. The three
levels of immersion used to group the user are engagement, engrossment and total
immersion. To get into these three levels, the user may need to experience one or
more of these three attributes of immersion which are unawareness about the
environment, unnoticed on the time passing and emotional involvement toward the
games. All these three attributes will be used to be monitored during the testing
process. The games for the testing are only a tool used to measure the immersiveness
of the user. The focus of this study is to measure the criteria of immersion while
playing computer games. The first testing was conducted to measure the presence of
immersion's attribute while playing computer games. The outcome of this testing is
to get the definite definition of immersion in blind user point of view. It used to
determine the presence of unaware of time passing, unnoticed about the environment
and emotional involvement toward the games. Based on the survey, the final result
for this project had shown that the users are immersed by unaware of time passing
and unnoticed about the environment. Therefore, this group of users had been group
into first level of immersion which is engagement. The further details on how the
users being grouped will be discuss in the discussion part.