Characterizations of users' experiences on the Web are beginning to appear. Recently released research suggests that Internet use may reduce psychological well-being, for instance by increasing loneliness and depression. Our current study implies that using the Internet may provoke enjoyable experiences through the flow state, which may in turn positively influence an individual's subjective we...

Recognizing the potential contribution that interactive software agents bring to everyday work applications, this paper reports on end-user adoption of animated interface agents in one particular work application environment: Microsoft Office. The paper develops and empirically tests a theoretical model of the factors affecting an end-user’s choice to adopt and utilize such interface agents. Fr...

Motivated group members experience a full sense of choice: of doing what one wants. Such behavior shows high performance, is enjoyable, and enhances innovation. This essay describes principles of building a motivated research group.

We developed an interface system called “Marching Bear,” where the robot controller’s motions were reflected in the motions of certain characters appearing on a computer display. We then conducted a simple experiment to investigate the effectiveness of this interface system to see whether users felt that this interface system was enjoyable. We used a questionnaire and conducted an observation t...

GP John Fullbrook tells Adrian O’Dowd why having lunch every working day with the whole team helps build morale and makes work more enjoyable

there are imaginative poets who have a look to nature and get astonished for their beauty and as if are observed for the first time.there are also some poets which are deeply inspired and get deeper insight by important factors of nature like color, sound and dynamism.dynamism is superior to the others. when poetic images are free of dynamism, they are deprived of beauty thus they are no more e...

Acknowledgments I wish to thank my advisor, Prof. David Peleg, for leading me step by step through the academic research. I thank him for his kindness, patience, and for his part in making my past year so interesting and enjoyable.

Sharing events with others is an important part of many enjoyable experiences. While most existing co-presence systems focus on work tasks, in this paper we describe a lightweight mobile system designed for sharing leisure. This system allows city visitors to share their experiences with others both far and near, through tablet computers that share photographs, voice and location. A collaborati...

Playfulness can be observed in all areas of human activity. It is an attitude of making activities more enjoyable. Designing for playfulness involves creating objects that elicit a playful approach and provide enjoyable experiences. In this paper we introduce the design and evaluation of the PLEX Cards and its two related idea generation techniques. The cards were created to communicate the 22 ...