Taking "Fun and Games" Seriously: Proposing the Hedonic-Motivation System Adoption Model (HMSAM)

By Paul Benjamin Lowry, James Eric Gaskin, Nathan W. Twyman, Bryan I. Hammer, Tom L. Roberts Jr.. Journal of the AIS, 2012

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Gamification in the Workplace: The Central Role of the Aesthetic Experience (2017, background): “The former, which focuses on the depth of engagement, argues that a gamified IS should be designed in such a way that users can become totally involved with the system, thereby experiencing a sense of heightened enjoyment, immersive concentration, and time distortion [54, 77].”
Toward Meaningful Engagement: A Framework for Design and Research of Gamified Information Systems (2017, background): “scholarly discussions on system designs that include hedonic outcomes (e.g., Li et al. 2013; Lowry et al. 2015; Lowry et al. 2013).”
Gameful Experience in Gamification: Construction and Validation of a Gameful Experience Scale [GAMEX] (2018, background): “(3) Cognitive absorption (Lowry et al. 2013), which is a part of the gaming experience and a strong predictor of why people play games (Brockmyer et al. 2009; Lowry et al. 2013).”
Why do people play games? A meta-analysis (2017, background): “More recently, however, IS scholars have observed that some systems (known as dual-purposed IS) can be employed for both utilitarian and leisure purposes (Gerow et al. 2013; Lowry et al. 2013; Soliman & Tuunainen 2015; Wu & Lu 2013).”
I’m Proud of It: Consumer Technology Appropriation and Psychological Ownership (2015, unknown): “Consumers who are “task-oriented” are focused on satisfaction from the outcome of an activity, such as downloading an app to accomplish a specific objective (e.g., to create a schedule), with little inherent enjoyment from the activity itself (Babin, Darden, and Griffin, 1994; Lowry et al., 2013).”
Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation on work engagement in the hospitality industry: Test of motivation crowding theory (2017, background): “However, it was not a serious concern (Lowry et al., 2012) because the number was far below the threshold suggested by Harman’s (1967) single factor test, which was 50%.”
Exploring Consumer Behavior in Virtual Reality Tourism Using an Extended Stimulus-Organism-Response Model (2018, background): “Moreover, enjoyment has an important impact on online game players (Lowry et al. 2013) and plays a vital role in predicting VR consumers’ behavioral intention to visit a destination (Huang et al. 2016).”