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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 50 , Issue 4 (April 2007) table of contents

COLUMN: Viewpoint table of contents

Pages: 31 - 34

Year of Publication: 2007

ISSN:0001-0782

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Jenova Chen

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

A well-designed game transports its players to their personal Flow Zones, delivering genuine feelings of pleasure and happiness.

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	1	Csikszentmihalyi, M. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Harper Perennial, London, 1990.
	2	Debold, E. Flow with soul: An interview with Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. What Is Enlightenment Magazine (Spring-Summer 2002); www.wie.org/j21/cziksz.asp.
	3	Holt, R. Examining Video Game Immersion as a Flow State. B.A. Thesis, Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 2000.
	4	Penelope Sweetser , Peta Wyeth, GameFlow: a model for evaluating player enjoyment in games, Computers in Entertainment (CIE), v.3 n.3, July 2005 [doi>10.1145/1077246.1077253]

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