Does gamification affect flow experience? A systematic literature review

Does gamification affect flow experience? A systematic literature review

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In recent years, studies in different areas have used gamification to improve users' flow experience. However, due to the high variety of the conducted studies and the lack of secondary studies (systematic literature reviews) in this field, it is difficult to get the state-of-the-art of this research domain. To address this problem, we conducted a systematic literature review to identify which gamification design methods have been used in the studies about gamification and Flow Theory, which gamification elements have been used in these studies, which methods have been used to evaluate the users' flow experience in gamified settings, and how gamification affects users' flow experience. The main results show that there is growing interest to this field, as the number of publications is increasing. The most significant interest is in the area of gamification in education. However, there is no unanimity regarding the preferred method of the study or the effects of gamification on users' experience. Our results highlight the importance of conducting new experimental studies investigating how gamification affects the users' flow experience in different gamified settings, applications and domains.

In recent years, studies in different areas have used gamification to improve users' flow experience. However, due to the high variety of the conducted studies and the lack of secondary studies (systematic literature reviews) in this field, it is difficult to get the state-of-the-art of this research domain. To address this problem, we conducted a systematic literature review to identify which gamification design methods have been used in the studies about gamification and Flow Theory, which gamification elements have been used in these studies, which methods have been used to evaluate the users' flow experience in gamified settings, and how gamification affects users' flow experience. The main results show that there is growing interest to this field, as the number of publications is increasing. The most significant interest is in the area of gamification in education. However, there is no unanimity regarding the preferred method of the study or the effects of gamification on users' experience. Our results highlight the importance of conducting new experimental studies investigating how gamification affects the users' flow experience in different gamified settings, applications and domains.

Gamification, Flow Theory, User experience, Gamified settings, přehled literatury

Gamification, Flow Theory, User experience, Gamified settings, přehled literatury

OLIVEIRA, W.; PASTUSHENKO, O.; RODRIGUES, L.; TODA, A.; PALOMINO, P.; HAMARI, J.; ISOTANI, S.

2023

07.04.2021

Association for Computing Machinery

Tampere

979-000-000-6

GamiFIN Conference 2021

GamiFIN Conference 2021

110

119

10

https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2883/paper12.pdf

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