打造一個媒介分類學模式：從體感遊戲系統是什麼樣不同的媒介談起

What Kind of Medium that Motion-Controlled Gaming System is: From the Perspective of Medium Taxonomy

柯籙晏(Ko, Lu-Yen)

《傳播研究與實踐》 8卷2期 (2018/07) Pp. 249-280

https://doi.org/10.6123/JCRP.2018.07_8(2).0008

摘要

本文從「體感遊戲系統是什麼樣不同的媒介」的問題出發，打造一個媒介分類學模式。本文首先說明「什麼是媒介」，主張媒介是人的延伸，並且在符號行動中起作用；其次說明「電玩遊戲系統是什麼樣不同的媒介」，主張在技術上，電玩系統是能再生虛擬實在的模擬媒介，在技術與人的關係上，人們不只詮釋電玩，更要玩它；其三說明「體感遊戲系統是什麼樣不同的媒介」主張體感遊戲系統是一種中介了悖論符號行動的肖似媒介。最後，本文根據前述討論，打造了一個符號分類學模式，並透過分析【Wii Sports】的經驗案例，檢驗本文所提出模式的詮釋能力。

關鍵字

媒介分類學 ； 體感遊戲系統 ； 媒介環境學 ； 實用主義符號學 ； 技藝現象學

並列摘要

By asking ＂what kind of medium is the motion-controlled gaming system＂? this study tries to build a taxonomic model for mediums relevant to the motion-controlled gaming phenomenon. First, we discuss the aspects of a medium, and consider a medium as being 1 an extension of humanity, and 2 functional in the action of signs or semiosis. Second, we examine the case of a video gaming system, and suggest that 1 a video gaming system is a simulation medium that brings virtual reality to life by technical pattern interaction, and 2 people should not only interact with such a system, but should use it to play. Third, we explore the medium type of a motion-controlled gaming system, which we believe is a type of iconic medium that mediates the paradoxical semiotics. Finally, we develop a taxonomic model for mediums and examine the interpretability of that model using a case study of Wii Sports.

並列關鍵字

medium taxonomy ； motion-controlled gaming system ； media ecology ； pragmatic semiotics ； phenomenology of technics

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