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Grodal, T. (2003). Stories for eye, ear, and muscles: Video games, media, and embodied experiences. In M. J. P. Wolf & B. Perron (Eds.), The Video Game Theory Reader. (pp. 129–155). New York: Routledge.    
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard   Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard 22/08/2006, 08:23
"...video games and other types of interactive virtual reality are simulations of basic modes of real-life experiences. This means that cognitive psychology provides many advantages as a tool for describing video games compared with a semiotic approach."  
"...a purely linguistic model may seriously impede descriptions of those media like video games that rely on a series of nonverbal skills."  

Takes Brenda Laurel (Laurel 1993) to task for comparing the computer metaphorically to theatre since the human faculties required for theatre "are neither exhaustive nor exclusive to theater."
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