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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Optimal Experience"”.
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The Optimal Experience of Visitors to a Virtual Tour Web Site
… first attempt to empirically evaluate visitors' experience and the effectiveness of an Internet virtual tour of a place to meet the goals of interpretive presentation. It aimed to determine whether an interpretive Web site could induce flow experience, what are the factors that contribute to flow …
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Metacognitions of Flow Experience: Towards an Understanding of the Self-Regulation of Optimal Experience
… by the propensity with which a person experiences flow, has been proposed, but the construct has proven to be relatively elusive. The overall aim of this PhD dissertation was to advance flow theory, and in particular enhance the knowledge of individual differences in flow experiences by …
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Enhancing the product design process: a framework for engineers based on the Toyota production system and the psychology of optimal experience
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2002.
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The Heart Has Its Own Order: The Phenomenology of Value and Feeling in Confucian Philosophy
… Max Scheler's clarification of human experience and theory of value. The phenomenological method and attitude, which seek essence by resorting to concrete personal and interpersonal experience rather than relying on the presuppositions of conceptual systems, offers a fresh and …
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Affective And Motivational Components Of The Flow State: Rock Climbing Revisited
… (1975), have served as a basis for research into optimal experience over the past twenty years, and although adjustments have been made by various researchers, the description of the characteristics remain essentially the same. This study used qualitative methods to further explore this area . …
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Does working together increase flow with age?
… One such motivational precursor is Flow, the optimal experience of an activity that is predicated on a perceived skill-challenge balance. The purpose of this research was to examine how the Flow experience is influenced by age differences in socioemotional motives. In the first study, …
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Cultivating resilience in the face of "not enough": exploring shame and shame-coping in U.S. college sport
… may inevitably face ‘not enough,’ shame-inducing experiences in their sport (Coakley, 2016; Lazarus, 2000; Ryall, 2019). Shame is a destructive psycho-socio-cultural experience of psychological isolation that can lead to performance deficits and even withdrawal from sport (Elison & Partridge, …
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Co-producing the nature-based adventure tourism experience: tourist, environment and management contributions
… factors and processes that influence tourists’ experience and satisfaction, guided by the view that the tourist experience and satisfaction is co-produced by tourist, environment, and management. A review of the satisfaction research in marketing, tourism, and recreation found that the existing …
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“I CAN’T BELIEVE CLASS IS OVER ALREADY!”: A STUDY OF HOW LANGUAGE-CLASS ACTIVITIES GENERATE FLOW
… When these factors converge, a learner can experience flow, which has been described as the “optimal experience” of engagement (Csíkszentmihályi, 1975, 1990, 2008) and has been linked to language learning success (Hong et al., 2017). Existing research has shown that student-centered, …
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An empirical exploration into changes coaches perceive associated with experience of Flow in coaching conversations
… is well researched. Flow as a subjective, optimal experience has been found to play a facilitating role in individual personal growth and development across many different contemporary work contexts and is receiving increased work-based research focus. Until recently, research efforts …
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An Hedonomic Evaluation Of Pleasurable Human-technology Experience: The Effect Of Exposure And Aesthetics On The Experience Of Flow
… a basis for evaluating pleasurable human-system experience. Results from a number of experiments within this framework that evaluated specific dimensions of the framework are reported. The 'Exposure' component of the EHH framework and hedonics of the system were investigated to see how changes …