Go/Stop : a bottom-up framework to understand young children's engagement with (exercise) video games

Existing theories that cover engagement with games largely ignore important elements, such as the role of context and the dynamic nature of gaming over time, while the few theories that do apply to disengagement are too general and thus provide few tools for understanding actual behavior. The current study aims to advance our understanding of game engagement by contrasting existing theoretical approaches with bottom-up, qualitative data collected in 30 interviews about game engagement with children and parents.Existing theories that cover engagement with games largely ignore important elements, such as the role of context and the dynamic nature of gaming over time, while the few theories that do apply to disengagement are too general and thus provide few tools for understanding actual behavior. The current study aims to advance our understanding of game engagement by contrasting existing theoretical approaches with bottom-up, qualitative data collected in 30 interviews about game engagement with children and parents.C