Abstract:Too often, people find their most important tasks tedious and tiresome. From going to the gym to getting through the workday, activities that ideally would feel immersive and engaging often feel anything but. How can tasks be designed to foster more engagement and less boredom? Answering this question requires a deep, mechanistic understanding of how the subjective experience of immersion and engagement — commonly known as flow — relates to mental representations of task structure. Traditional theories of flow… Show more
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