Abstract
Flow experience, the degree to which a person feels involved in a particular activity, is an important influence on human–computer interaction. Building on Guo and Poole’s (2009) model of flow experience in Web navigation, and van Schaik and Ling's (in press) cognitive-experiential approach to modelling interaction experience, this research demonstrates the crucial role of the preconditions of flow experience in human–computer interaction. In an experiment, the preconditions of flow experience – but not flow experience proper – mediated the effects of artefact complexity, task complexity and intrinsic motivation (as a situation-specific trait) on both flow and task outcome. However, preconditions did not predict overall artefact evaluation. Within a staged model of flow experience, the broader implications of this work for human–computer interaction are explored.
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