My research examined the impact of new media technologies on interaction, focusing on pervasive experiences. It explored what happens when participants engage in mediated gameplay activity within a live setting.

It considered the relationship between pervasiveness and narrative, framing, media as 'an extension of man', post-humanism, agency and interactive dramaturgy.

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I hypothesised that simultaneous engagement in multiple situations of co-presence leads to a new state of being, termed 'co-co-presence', in which what happens in one situation pervades another.

I reported on a series of small-scale iterative experiments, using a specially designed pervasive game devised to engender co-co-presence and isolate selected variables in controlled conditions. The experiments compared the experience of new media technology (texting) with old media (paper notes) and found no significant difference in either the creation of, or effects of, co-co-presence.

The evidence from these experiments suggested that what happened in the game (one situation of co-presence) affected what happened outside the game (another situation of co-presence) and vice-versa, confirming the hypothesis. The data also showed that social framing factors had the greatest influence on participant behaviour.