Conference paper · 2021

Flow Encourages Task Focus, but Frustration Drives Task Switching: How Reward and Effort Combine to Influence Player Engagement in a Simple Video Game

Nicholas David Bowman, Justin Keene, Christina Jimenez Najera

VenueProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DOI10.1145/3411764.3445678
URLhttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445678
TopicsReplicHAI / Iarygina 2026 CHI corpus
ISBN978-1-4503-8096-6
conferenceNameCHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
languageen
libraryCatalogDOI.org (Crossref)
pages1-8
placeYokohama Japan
publisherACM
shortTitleFlow Encourages Task Focus, but Frustration Drives Task Switching

BibTeX

@inproceedings{david_bowman_flow_2021,
	address = {Yokohama Japan},
	title = {Flow {Encourages} {Task} {Focus}, but {Frustration} {Drives} {Task} {Switching}: {How} {Reward} and {Effort} {Combine} to {Influence} {Player} {Engagement} in a {Simple} {Video} {Game}},
	isbn = {978-1-4503-8096-6},
	shorttitle = {Flow {Encourages} {Task} {Focus}, but {Frustration} {Drives} {Task} {Switching}},
	url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445678},
	doi = {10.1145/3411764.3445678},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2026-11-05},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 {CHI} {Conference} on {Human} {Factors} in {Computing} {Systems}},
	publisher = {ACM},
	author = {David Bowman, Nicholas and Keene, Justin and Najera, Christina Jimenez},
	month = may,
	year = {2021},
	pages = {1--8},
}