Understanding Of Co-creation Research Articles

The influence of trust and commitment on free-to-play gamers co-creation intentions

ABSTRACT Through the lens of trust–commitment and co-creation theories, this study explores the effect of trust on commitment and co-creation intentions within the free-to-play (F2P) gaming industry, to extend our understanding of co-creation within a service context. Responses from an online survey were used as inputs into a structural equation model (SEM). The findings reveal that trust in a F2P game influences commitment to continue playing the F2P game and elicit behaviour in the form of co-creation intentions. The findings also found that involvement and achievement motivations partially mediate the relationship between trust and commitment and escapism significantly moderates the relationship between trust and involvement.

Umberto Eco’s notions of the ‘open work’ and the ‘field of possibilities’: New perspectives on music therapy and co-creation?

Umberto Eco’s ideas and philosophy have proven to be a profound inspiration to the research team dedicated to the recently completed qualitative interdisciplinary research project ‘RHYME: rhythm & rhyme; co-creation through tangible interaction’, in which both of the present authors participated. The idea of RHYME is that ordinary objects in the home environment – a pillow, carpet or toy, for example – if they should become both musical and interactive, might afford meaningful, joyful and even health-promoting moments of co-creation in the everyday lives of families with a child with disabilities. This article develops the central RHYME notion of co-creation further by introducing it to music therapy. From our experiences with interactive and musical media from RHYME, and inspired by Eco and his notions of ‘open works’ and ‘fields of possibilities’, we have developed an understanding of music therapy as a configuration of possible events or interactive structural forces. Music, then, becomes one of many possible media in music therapy. Through a reflective synthesis which also includes the discussion of empirical RHYME data, we will address the following research question: Can Eco’s notions contribute something new to our understanding of co-creation in music therapy, and, if so, what and how?

The Vikings Are Here! Experiencing Volunteering at a Viking Heritage Site

Co-creation in tourist experiences is well established, and tourism managers are increasingly aware of tourists' role in the creation of own experiences. Other actors are often involved in this creation, and the question is, what they experience and gain from their involvements. Heritage sites offer complex, negotiable products that depend on interaction to fully emerge and form valuable experiences, and they are therefore relevant to explore in this context. Based on theory of the heritage experience, an analysis is undertaken to explore various levels and dynamics of involvement. Co-creation literature addresses the complex processes of co-creation, which indicate that interaction is at the centre of involvement, and this exploratory research therefore zooms in on interaction in re-enactors' experiences at a heritage site. This study is based on a Danish Viking site, Fyrkat, where a volunteer Viking re-enactment group engages in activities at the site, which suggests personal outcomes and inherent values along the lines of exercising interests in history, living out heritage, and socialising with like-minded peers. The paper provides knowledge of a dimension of co-created experiences that has been paid little attention, and thus contributes to a new understanding of co-creation in the experience of tourism.