E-sports from the Perspective of Embodiment: Historical Evolution, Conceptual Attributes, and Development Orientation

In recent years, e-sports has gained a strong momentum of development, and the scale of the industry and the number of people participating in it continue to grow. With the acceleration of technological innovation, the embodied evolution of e-sports is becoming more and more evident. Looking at the development of e-sports from the perspective of embodied cognition, we find that e-sports not only has obvious sports attribute, but also provides new insights into the physical and mental development of young people. Although the integration of sports and e-sports needs to consider the transformation and innovation of the industry and the development of quantitative economy, the healthy development of participants and e-sports itself, when examined from the perspective of embodied cognition, must adhere to the following orientations: shaping the body image by transforming it from virtual world to reality; improving the digital literacy from game to education; optimizing movement skills from fingertips to the body; strengthening social adaptation from closure to communication.