Comments on: “Virtual Sensation” http://www.steveswink.com/posts/virtual-sensation/ Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:52:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: sswink http://www.steveswink.com/posts/virtual-sensation/comment-page-1/#comment-18 sswink Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:21:53 +0000 http://www.steveswink.com/posts/virtual-sensation/#comment-18 I think what you're describing is kinesthesia or proprioception, the "sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body" but I will definitely track down that section of Game Design Perspectives. (http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Proprioception) One of my original, clunky names was 'virtual kinesthesia', since that seems to encapsulate most the dynamics at work, but I decided it was too obscure. It seems like there should be a simple word or phrase that describes this extremely common feeling. Don't you think? I think what you’re describing is kinesthesia or proprioception, the “sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body” but I will definitely track down that section of Game Design Perspectives.

(http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Proprioception)

One of my original, clunky names was ‘virtual kinesthesia’, since that seems to encapsulate most the dynamics at work, but I decided it was too obscure. It seems like there should be a simple word or phrase that describes this extremely common feeling. Don’t you think?

]]> By: me http://www.steveswink.com/posts/virtual-sensation/comment-page-1/#comment-17 me Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:16:34 +0000 http://www.steveswink.com/posts/virtual-sensation/#comment-17 I think this was actually covered before in "Game Design Perspectives" (published 2002), though I can't recall the terminology they used there. The sensation you described however was defined by the authors of the book as a result of when brain functions took place lower and lower in the cereberal cortex (or thereabouts, I'm just full of critical details tonight I guess). The lower the level brain function the more abstract the signals are when communicating between what you perceive with your senses, and responding with a feedback of your own. i.e., when catching a football you no longer think to yourself: put left hand up, put right hand up, open fingers, wait for impact... wait for it... close fingers! etc. etc. It just happens naturally as it's learned. Either way, thought you might want to read up on that, since it's roughly the same thing. I think this was actually covered before in “Game Design Perspectives” (published 2002), though I can’t recall the terminology they used there.
The sensation you described however was defined by the authors of the book as a result of when brain functions took place lower and lower in the cereberal cortex (or thereabouts, I’m just full of critical details tonight I guess). The lower the level brain function the more abstract the signals are when communicating between what you perceive with your senses, and responding with a feedback of your own. i.e., when catching a football you no longer think to yourself: put left hand up, put right hand up, open fingers, wait for impact… wait for it… close fingers! etc. etc. It just happens naturally as it’s learned.
Either way, thought you might want to read up on that, since it’s roughly the same thing.

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