Countermeasures for Side Effects of Online Virtual Reality Games

• Published in: Journal of Digital Contents Society Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 405 - 412
• Main Author: Hong, Sung Ryong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 한국디지털콘텐츠학회 30.06.2014
• Subjects: 컴퓨터학; 대응방안; virtual reality; 컴퓨터 중독; real world; 컴퓨터 게임; computer game; 게임 중독; countermeasures; 게임 부작용; side effects; 가상현실
• ISSN: 1598-2009; 2287-738X
• DOI: 10.9728/dcs.2014.15.3.405

Computer game addiction generally signifies excessive or unhealthy inclination for computer games. Game addicts spend great amount of their time engrossed in playing games while neglecting the real world. They have the tendency to neglect important responsibilities and isolate themselves from others. Instead, they place greater importance on their status, performance, and achievement in games. Virtual stores, virtual libraries, virtual cinema, virtual trade shows, virtual schools, virtual characters have been emerging due to the popularity of the internet. An ambiguous term virtual reality has appeared in addition to the word virtual. There also appeared alien and UFO syndrome. Such social phenomenon has brought about confusion of reality and virtual world in which things that do not exist are mistakenly believed to exist. This study focuses on virtual reality games and provides an assessment of the causes and the side effects of game addiction and proposes countermeasures. KCI Citation Count: 3