• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.35-44
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• 2019

Purpose - This study examines the changes in the mobile MMORPG market in recent years and the factors affecting the performance of mobile games through flow experience according to the characteristics of game content. Research design, data, and methodology - This study focuses on the fact that the cause of game use behavior changes is the flow experience which influences the duration of mobile game continuation. The flow experience and the influencing factors are divided into the relationship between first, second-leading factors, and lagged factors. Results - The user's sense of challenge, skillfulness, concentration, and reality influenced the flow experience as a leading factor influencing the performance of MMORPG games. On the other hand, fun and preference were found to be the outcomes of the flow experience. This is because the game content is experienced not through passive enjoyment but by intentionally enjoying the game content. The flow experience has a positive effect on the intention of continuous use as in the previous study. Conclusions - This study found that the flow experience of game users is necessary for continuous use by organizing relationships of flow experience in mobile MMORPG users' gaming behavior.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.209-216
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• 2010

The purpose of this paper is to examine a user's flow experience of digital contents. In the paper, the flow experience of digital contents was applied to the case of online games and it was experimentally investigated whether challenge and skill affect the user's flow experience. The results of the paper indicate that there are differences in the flow experience according to the level (low, medium, high) of challenge and skill in the context of online games. Furthermore, there is no interaction effect between challenge and skill affecting flow experience. The findings provide useful implications for IT firms that will plan to develop and design digital contents.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.573-585
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• 2008

Flow has attracted more interests in consumer behaviors, with pleasure and fantasy getting more important in shopping. "Flow" means the experience with which consumers feel as pleased and satisfied as in playing pleasantly, and the optimal experience they feel when they are indulged in an activity. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among challenges, skills, flow experience, and future behavioral intention in online shopping malls. In addition, a 3D shopping mall and a 2D shopping mall were selected as the stimuli in order to examine the differences in flow experience in accordance with web site types. A survey questionnaire was developed and 700 data(2D group: n=380, 3D group: n=320) were used for analysis. Data were analyzed through structural equation model to explore effects of challenges and skills on flow. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, the perception of higher challenges and skills led to positive flow experience and higher time distortion. Second, the higher the level of time distortion was, the higher the flow experience was. This means that a shopping mall will increase flow experience, if it is interesting enough to be unaware of time passing. Third, flow experience had a positive influence on future behavioral intention. Finally, in all variables except skills, the impact of 3D shopping mall is greater than that of 2D shopping mall, which means that web site types affect flow experience.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.141-153
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• 2020

This study aims to understand the antecedents and consequences of flow experience in online movie information sharing behavior of young Chinese moviegoers residing in Korea to explore a potential market. We followed the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) theory and flow theory approaches for developing measures of constructs and investigated previous related studies. This study collected 186 data from Chinses students who attend Korean university. Statistical analysis revealed that information seeking behavior and telepresence are related to online flow experience. In addition, the online flow experience affected consumer satisfaction and information sharing behavior. Flow experience also has been predicted the mediation effect between stimulus information seeking behavior, telepresence and satisfaction and information sharing behavior. Our research findings offer insights for marketers in the movie distribution business who are interested in a better understanding of the behaviors of Chinese moviegoers residing in Korea

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.554-564
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• 2013

This study identified the characteristic and meaning of flow experience through the experiences related to fashion models' role performance; subsequently, the following findings were obtained. First, fashion models' flow experience could be divided into characteristics such as temporality, spatiality, relationality, physicalness and pleasure. Second, the process of this flow experience ultimately led to the complete moment. The complete moment can be said to be the aesthetic experience that provides both the meaningful experience and the aesthetic pleasure; it is the experiential knowledge at the dimension of mysterious integration that their body and mind are integrated into one. The beauty that fashion models exercise at the aspect of this aesthetic experience is that of performance and is an individual physical movement where they perceive their role and exercise their inner ability to express their costume most beautifully. Accordingly, the beauty of performance can be said to mean that the fashion show was successfully held by inducing both the performer and the audience into an aesthetic response. The process of specialized planning and preparation is required for fashion models to exercise the beauty of performance at the complete movement reached through flow experience and a successful fashion show. Diverse elements of the fashion show should be more organically constituted through such a process. Fashion models should exert efforts to embody acts such as walking, posing and turning through the performance of their excellent role as well as develop a training program to complete it.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.30 no.8
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• pp.1188-1198
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• 2006

This study recognizes that individual's experience is important in change over Internet fashion consumers to Internet users, and find out fashion consumer's flow experience in Internet shopping of the fashion merchandise. Also, the purpose of this study is to analyze whether flow experience and perceived utilitarian value have an effect on Internet purchase intention of the fashion merchandise. To fulfill this objectives, a survey was conducted out from June 20 to July 30 in 2005, and an subject of study was married women aged from 20s to 30s in purchase experience of the fashion merchandise to Internet shopping malls. Data collected over the Internet, and analyzed the 306 subjects. The statistical analysis methods was frequency analysis, reliability analysis, factor analysis, multiple regression analysis. 3 hypotheses were accepted, the result of this study were as follows: First, a married women aged from 20s to 30s in purchase experience of the fashion merchandise to Internet shopping malls were skilled Internet enough to regarding Internet shopping as an easy thing, and was challenged in Internet activity. Their Internet skills, challenges and interaction had an effect on flow experience and perceived utilitarian value. Therefore, the more Internet skills, challenges. and interaction were higher, the more flow and utilitarian value about Internet shopping was higher. Second, a married women aged from 20s to 30s were high-purchased group of the fashion merchandise to Internet shopping malls, and had a repurchase intention in Internet shopping mall within the purchase experience of the fashion merchandise. Their flow experience and perceived utilitarian value had an effect on Internet purchase intention of the fashion merchandise. Therefore, the more flow experience and perceived utilitarian value were higher, the more Internet purchase intention of the fashion merchandise was higher.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.357-367
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether flow experience is effective as a mediator in the effect of BJ attributes on viewer satisfaction. For this study, a survey was conducted on a total of 198 users who watch one - person game broadcasting on African TV. According to analysis, first, the joy flow experience is mediating role in the relationship between intimacy BJ attributes and viewing satisfaction. Second, the Control flow experience did not mediating role in the relationship between all BJ attributes and viewing satisfaction. Third, the attention flow experience is mediating role in the relationship between intimacy and reliability BJ attributes and viewing satisfaction. Fourth, the Time distortion flow experience is mediating role in the relationship between intimacy BJ attributes and viewing satisfaction. Fifth, the Self loss flow experience did not mediating role in the relationship between all BJ attributes and viewing satisfaction. The intimacy of the game BJ was found to affect mediocre satisfaction, attention, attention, and time distorted flow experience.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.13-22
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to explore 'Flow Experience' of those studying English speaking and listening in the e-Learning environment. The exploration of flow experience in this study is based on the literature research of Csikszentmihalyi's flow models and other studies. There have been many studies on flow experience focusing on arts, leisure and sports in accordance with Csikszentmihalyi's original theory, however, his flow theory has recently been adapted to the educational field. Nonetheless, it is in the e-learning environment, rather than the face-to-face traditional teaming environment, that there is not enough flow state measurement scale. Therefore, it is important to develop as a stepping stone a flow state scale for those who study English speaking and listening by the cyber-native-speaker on e-Learning environment to improve their satisfaction and achievement.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.492-502
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to verify the influences of surfing participants' participation motivation on flow experience and continuous participation intention. The study conducted a research survey through purposive sampling method after selecting 2 surfing center in Ganwon-do. 280 questionnaires distributed and 269 were selected as final valid sample by removing 11 questionnaires that have insufficient answers. Then data were analyzed through exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis using SPSS Window ver. 20.0. The results were as followings. First, participation motivation factors have positive effect on flow experience. Second, participation motivation factors have an influence on continuous participation intention. Third, flow experience have an influence on continuous participation intention. Fourth, leisure flow have an influence on continuous participation intention.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.55-68
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• 2013

This study examined the factors determining experience of flow in mobile social network games. Built upon the literature on flow experience in the Internet and online games, this study classified the determining factors into three categories. The first category is the content factor which includes graphic design, challenge, and incentive; the second is the device factor including ease of access and ease of control; the third is the social factor including social interaction and community activities. A correlation analysis was conducted to examine the association between each of the seven determining factors and flow experience. Additionally, a hierarchical regression analysis was performed to evaluate which of the selected factors would exert a relatively strong influence on experience of flow. Both analyses reached the same conclusions as follows: Graphic design, incentive, and community activities increase flow experience while challenge and ease of control exert little influence on flow experience. In addition, graphic design was the most influential element in determining flow experience, followed by community activities and incentive, respectively.