An Embodied View of Flow

Romero, Pablo; Calvillo-Gámez, Eduardo H.

doi:10.1093/iwc/iwt051

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“…In recent studies Csikszentmihalyi states that conditions: (1), (2), and (3) promote flow in the course of performing a task [18]. In particular, if the activity is not challenging enough the user will become bored but if the challenge is too difficult he or she will get frustrated, so an adequate challenge level fosters the correct performance of the task [17].…”

Section: Theory Of Flowmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Optimal User Experience or Flow is a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) theory focused on promoting a particular kind of human user emotional state that is desirable and can arise when users perform an intrinsically motivating activity [1,2]. This state, which is referred to here as a state of flow, is characterized roughly by being deeply involved and focused on a fully rewarding and satisfying experience.…”

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Promoting Optimal User Experience through Composite Challenge Tasks

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Pineda

2019

Applied Sciences

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Optimal user experience or flow is a theory with great impact on user experience. Promoting flow has become a competitive advantage for interactive systems, including rehabilitation. This can be achieved through an engaging interface that provides a rewarding experience and motivates the user to use the system again. This theory sustains that promoting a state of flow and improving task performance depends heavily on the balance between the challenges posed by the system and the skills deployed by the user. We further claim that balanced mental and motor skills demanded by the task improve flow and task performance. This paper presents an experiment supporting these claims. For this, we built two movement-interaction rehabilitation systems called SIBMER and Macoli (arm in Náhuatl). Both systems have two versions, one with a balanced load of mental and motor skills, and the other with an unbalanced one. Both versions are compared in terms of their potential to promote the state of flow and to improve task performance. Results show that a balance demand of mental and motor skills promotes flow, independently of the task complexity. Likewise, the experiment shows a correlation between flow and performance.

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Section: Theory Of Flowmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Promoting Optimal User Experience through Composite Challenge Tasks

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Pineda

2019

Applied Sciences

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“…A challenge may be classified as a composite factor associated with the cognitive, physical, and affective parts of a person [13,24]. Thus challenges can be analyzed in different ways.…”

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“…Thus challenges can be analyzed in different ways. In this respect, one of the factors to measure the challenge in making it suitable for an activity is familiarity [24]. Familiarity with the traditional way of thinking in game playing can be from remembering the certain scenarios or landmarks of the game environment, becoming useful in tackling the problems of similar genres of games.…”

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confidence: 99%

Video Game Control Dimensionality Analysis

Mustaquim

Nyström

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interactive Entertainment

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In this paper we have studied the video games control dimensionality and its effects on the traditional way of interpreting difficulty and familiarity in games. This paper presents the findings in which we have studied the Xbox 360 console's games control dimensionality. Multivariate statistical operations were performed on the collected data from 83 different games of Xbox 360. It was found that the player's perceived level of familiarity and difficulty can be influenced by the game control dimensionality. We also found that the perceived difficulty varies with control dimensionality and that the familiarity tends to show no relation to the user's perceived difficulty. A way to measure and better understand familiarity and difficulty for games using the control dimensionality can thus give a better interpretation of different genres of games to its players and also to the game designers for further improvements in games' design. Positive transfer of this could bring forward new knowledge for game designers to augment learning of different genres of games.

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“…In Romero and Calvillo-Gamez (2011), we propose a view of flow based on notions of phenomenology and embodied interaction (Dourish 2001). This view stresses the importance of four main points: the importance of effortless attention, the context where interaction takes place, whether the task is directly concerned with the digital system or with any other aspect of reality, and the body and its role in the interaction with the system.…”

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Effortless attention and composite challenges in movement interaction

Romero

Calvillo-Gámez

2012

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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This paper describes an empirical investigation into the nature of challenge within the context of flow or effortless attention. An important condition of the flow state is that the challenges of the task are commensurate with the person's level of skill. However when considering movement interaction those challenges could be composite in the sense that they could comprise physical as well as intellectual elements. In order to evaluate the importance of composite challenges, this investigation compares an unbalanced with a balanced activity in terms of their challenge composition. The results of the study suggest that balanced activities are more likely to promote flow but also highlight the need of undertaking more detailed studies of balancing in composite challenges within the context of flow.

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An Embodied View of Flow

Cited by 14 publications

References 33 publications

Promoting Optimal User Experience through Composite Challenge Tasks

Promoting Optimal User Experience through Composite Challenge Tasks

Video Game Control Dimensionality Analysis

Effortless attention and composite challenges in movement interaction

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