Exploring Web users' optimal flow experiences

By Hsiang Chen, R. Wigand, M. Nilan. Information Technology and People, 2000

310 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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An online game approach for improving students' learning performance in web-based problem-solving activities (2012, background): “Such a finding conforms to what has been reported by several studies, namely that challenge, control and enjoyment are core factors related to flow experience during the online learning process (Chen et al., 2000; Wang & Chen, 2010); moreover, these factors can be introduced by providing instant int”
EFFECTS OF INTERACTIVITY IN A WEB SITE: The Moderating Effect of Need for Cognition (2005, methodology): “It has been established in the literature that consumers do experience flow while using the Web (Chen, Wigand, and Nilan 1999; Novak, Hoffman, and Yung 2000).”
The Role of Flow Experience in Cyber-Game Addiction (2003, unknown): “9,10 In sum, evidence from flow studies has shown that playfulness is of key value to generate optimal flow.”
Theorizing Flow and Media Enjoyment as Cognitive Synchronization of Attentional and Reward Networks (2009, background): “Finneran and Zhang (2002) join Nakamura and Csikszentmihalyi (2002) in noting the even greater difficulties associated with operationally defining dimensions of flow.”
Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users (2009, background): “[52] looked at flow in the context of Web interactions.”
An empirical investigation into e‐shopping excitement: antecedents and effects (2009, result): “…finding is in line with previous studies that suggest that using the internet may provoke enjoyable experiences through the flow state, which may in turn positively influence and affect psychological wellbeing (Chen et al., 2000) and a determinant of consumers’ emotions (Machleit and Eroglu, 2000).”