Developing Design Frameworks and Applications for Future Technologies Through Video Game Representations

Video games offer conceptual examples of future technologies and provide interactive contexts in which these technologies can be designed, tested, and evaluated. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has been an integral part of video games since their inception, as it offers interface designers and technology developers a platform by which they can build scenarios and interactive prototypes to engage players. Real-world and game-world technologies draw from each other and lend themselves to evaluation through the lens of human-computer interaction paradigms. This paper seeks to provide further evidence supporting the relevance of HCI principles for evaluating general video game and in-game world technologies, and to establish a set of frameworks through which technologists can examine future technology concepts in video games, often in the form of science fiction artifacts and systems.