Abstract This research seeks to improve our understanding of how intrinsic motivation is instantiated. Three theories, flow theory, self-determination and empowerment have informed the foundations at work. Taken jointly, they suggest six causal factors for motivation: (1) perceived competence, (2) challenge, (3) autonomy, (4) impact, (5) social relatedness, (6) meaningfulness. Integrating diffe...

Abstract Positive psychology postulates that using one’s strengths can facilitate employee well-being and performance at work. However, whether use is associated with attentional has remained unanswered in the literature. Attention plays a role job performance, previous literature suggested contrasting link between (i.e., positive affect) performance. We hypothesize that, within work episodes, ...

My purpose in this essay is to explore religious experience and religious thought and the relation between the two, for how these two are conceived has an important bearing on how we understand the meaningfulness of religion and religious traditions. My starting point is Peter Berger's recent work. The Heretical Imperative (Anchor/Doubleday, 1980), in which he summarizes the various strategies ...

Because of the increasing need for application measurement, several vendors are offering products to track and record End-To-End Response Time. The question now becomes “where to measure” instead of “how to measure.” Measuring application response time at several points can produce an overwhelming amount of data but does not guarantee any meaningful information from the business point-of-view. ...

This article extends current theorizing in media psychology on audience responses to cinema by examining individuals’ perceptions of meaningfulness. Specifically, it presents the results of a study designed to expand upon research on psychological and subjective well-being to experiences and memories of films that are perceived as particularly meaningful by viewers. Characteristics and themes o...

This article presents a theory of the relationship of the psychological and the physical and uses it to formulate a new kind of meaningfulness principle for psychophysical application. This new principle calls into question the psychological relevance of many kinds of quantitative psychophysical relationships. As an illustration, it is used to study comparisons of sensitivity involving Weber fr...

Interactive music, in e.g. video games, often tends to be complex both in the creative and the technological part. Video games, that have any interactivity connected to the music, often have simplistic music and music technology. The sounding results vary greatly in quality, both in musical aesthetics and in interactive meaningfulness. One of the interactivemusic strategies available is horizon...

Recognition methods use different features to assign a pattern to a prototype class. The recognition accuracy strongly depends on the selected features. In this paper we present a novel fuzzy methodology to extract appropriate fuzzy features from the handwriting data. From these meaningful features a set of linguistic rules are derived which in turn constitute a fuzzy rule base for character re...

This paper reports an experiment designed to evaluate the efficacy of visual cues as error “interventions” in computerbased routine procedural tasks. Using two separate tasks with a well-documented error prone step, the effects of several visual cues were compared. The findings provide support for goal selection driven by environmental cues in routine procedural tasks. The importance of cue tim...

As part of a project aiming to demonstrate feasibility and meaningfulness of on-line and blended PBL (Problem, Process & Project Based) design educational processes (Interaction Design, Design or the Experience, etc.), in this paper we present and discuss a participatory-grading procedure that has been designed to assess the intermediate tests of a course on "Multimodal Interface and Systems". ...