Meanings
alternative time on device
- uncountablegamblingThe time spent playing on a gaming machine, seen as a metric.
Complementing efforts to extend time-on-device by anticipating players’ conscious desires, another set of design strategies operate at an unconscious level, much like the affective appeals of architecture and ambience.
2012, Natasha Dow Schüll, Addiction by Design, →ISBN, page 59Synonyms: TOD
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe time spent playing on a gaming machine, seen as a metric.
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