DIGITAL LEISURE FLOW EXPERIENCE: SCALE DEVELOPMENT STUDY

Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Optimal Experience: The Flow State Scale

The Flow State Scale (FSS) is a new measure of flow in sport and physical activity settings. The nine FSS scales of the 36-item instrument represent the dimensions of flow discussed by Csikszentmihalyi (1990, 1993), and each scale is measured by four items. Development of items was based on (a) past research with flow state both within and outside of sport settings, (b) qualitative analysis of ...

Improving Search Experience on Distributed Leisure Events

This paper examines how simple changes to a search system can influence the user’s experience when using the system. In previous work, we evaluated user behaviour with a search tool designed to help people discover events distributed over a city of interest to them personally. We established, contrary to our expectations, that users mostly searched for events they already knew about, made sever...

Optimal experience in work and leisure.

Followed 78 adult workers for 1 week with the experience sampling method. (This method randomly samples self-reports throughout the day.) The main question was whether the quality of experience was more influenced by whether a person was at work or at leisure or more influenced by whether a person was in flow (i.e., in a condition of high challenges and skills). Results showed that all the vari...

Know Thyself? Assimilating the Classical Leisure Ideal, Self-actualisation, Flow Experience, and Existential Authenticity

Metadata Development for Digital Libraries and Museums - Taiwan's Experience

In the digital library/museum environment, metadata plays a crucial role, and the development of metadata is not an easy task. Its formulation has to begin with analysing the attributes of collections, and understanding the user information needs and information seeking behaviours. The issue of interoperability needs to be considered in terms of both semantic as well as syntax. This paper intro...