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Understanding Perceived Enjoyment in Mobile Game Context

2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2016
Earlier mobile game studies have largely focused on the pre-adoption phase while ignoring the post-adoption behaviors. Additionally, while intrinsic factors are often considered important in affecting game play, little research has attempted to understand their antecedents.
Nguyen, Duyen   +3 more
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Detecting Happiness: Perceiver Sensitivity to Enjoyment and Non-Enjoyment Smiles

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 2007
The physiognomic distinctions between spontaneous enjoyment smiles and deliberate non-enjoyment smiles provide the social perceiver with a functional, accessible source of information to help regulate social interaction. Two experiments were performed to investigate whether perceivers were sensitive to this information in a contextually meaningful ...
Lynden Miles, Lucy Johnston
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Is Enjoyment Important? An Empirical Research on the Impact of Perceive Enjoyment on Adoption of New Technology

2009 International Conference on Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering, 2009
A lot of studies for acceptance of new technology have been conducted in context of work settings, but some technologies can be used for amusement also. Is enjoyment a necessary or garniture? The authors develop scenarios about the relative importance of enjoyment to the adoption of new technology.
Yuanfang Song, Jidong Han
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Causal Relationships between Perceived Enjoyment and Perceived Ease of Use: An Alternative Approach

Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2006
Identifying causal relationships is an important aspect of scientific inquiry. Causal relationships help us to infer, predict, and plan. This research investigates the causal relationships between two constructs, perceived enjoyment (PE) and perceived ease of use (PEOU), within the nomological net of user technology acceptance.
Heshan Sun, Ping Zhang 0002
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A comparative analysis on the effects of perceived enjoyment and perceived risk on hedonic/utilitarian smartphone applications

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2015
Although smartphone applications are widely adopted around the world, empirical studies that examine the user acceptance on different application types are still scarce. This paper empirically compares the effects of perceived enjoyment and perceived risk on hedonic and utilitarian smartphone applications.
Junyong Xiang   +3 more
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Music Enhances Performance and Perceived Enjoyment of Sprint Interval Exercise

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2015
Interval exercise training can elicit physiological adaptations similar to those of traditional endurance training, but with reduced time. However, the intense nature of specific protocols, particularly the "all-out" efforts characteristic of sprint interval training (SIT), may be perceived as being aversive.
Matthew J, Stork   +3 more
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Freedom and Enjoyment: Disentangling Perceived Leisure

Journal of Leisure Research, 1983
Through participant observation research and. open-ended questionnaires administered to professional and amateur soccer players and gardeners, a hypothesis is presented as a reason why an activity ...
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What Makes Airbnb Experiences Enjoyable? The Effects of Environmental Stimuli on Perceived Enjoyment and Repurchase Intention

Journal of Travel Research, 2020
While scholarly inquiry into Airbnb has experienced an exponential growth in the tourism literature, the role of the environmental stimuli of Airbnb experiences in creating consumer enjoyment is underexplored. Adopting the Mehrabian-Russell model, this study proposes a conceptual framework to investigate the linkages between three well-documented ...
Kevin Kam Fung So   +2 more
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Perceived Importance, Enjoyment, and Anxiety as Correlates of Computer Attitudes

Psychological Reports, 2007
A sample of 138 students was assessed for their computer attitudes using a Likert-type questionnaire with three subscales: Computer Importance, Computer Enjoyment, and Computer Anxiety. An overall positive attitude towards computers was found. Multivariate analysis of variance revealed no significant differences in computer attitudes by gender ...
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“This Game Is Girly!” Perceived Enjoyment and Student Acceptance of Edutainment

2012
Serious video games that enable students to engage into topics as mathematics through an enjoyment process are becoming increasingly popular. However, there is lack of empirical evidence on the relationship between students' enjoyment and their intention to use serious video games.
Michail N. Giannakos   +3 more
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