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Master thesis Flow Experience in Participatory Designed Online Environments Lauri Laineste Supervisor: PhD Kai Pata IMKE 2010

Flow Experience in Participatory Designed Online Environments

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The presentation of my thesis. The aim of this master thesis is to study the flow experience in a hybrid ecosystem in which participants act as designers and collaboratively create narratives.

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Master thesis

Flow Experience in Participatory Designed Online Environments

Lauri LainesteSupervisor: PhD Kai Pata

IMKE 2010

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The aim of this master thesis is to study the flow experience in a hybrid ecosystem in which participants act

as designers and collaboratively create narratives.

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Flow state of consciousness that is experienced by deeply involved and enjoyable activities.

The anxiety is reduced and control over the tasks felt.

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Participatory design

• The participatory design method encourages the users to become designers

• In a need for the most optimal design, the users are motivated to participate in the design

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Research questions

• What characterizes the flow experience in the participatory designed online environment?

• What are the triggers that keep users in the flow in the participatory designed online environments?

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Research questions

• How participatory design method supports experiencing flow?

• How flow validates the design of a web environment?

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• Participatory design experiment with a goal to test new ways for storytelling in hybrid ecosystem

• Participatory design was supported as people started looking for the most optimal designs for storytelling

Ecology of Narratives

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Methodology

• The qualitative analysis of Ecology of Narratives course data

• Interviews with the participants of the course

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Flow characteristics

• control over the tasks

• focus

• involvement

• playfulness

• positive effect

• telepresence

• time distortion

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Findings

• People who actively participated in the design process also felt greater motivation for collaborative storytelling, which made them to experience flow

• Once in flow, they felt engagement in the community and continued contributing in the design of the hybrid ecosystem

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User control

Hybrid design

Narrative

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User control Flow experience

Hybrid design

Narrative

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User control Flow experience

Hybrid design

Narrative

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User control Flow experience

Hybrid design

Narrative

Optimal design

Optimal narrative activity behavior

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Optimal design

Optimal narrative activity behavior

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Flow patterns• Personal flow

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Flow patterns• The flow of a collaborative narrative

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Conclusions

• Flow can be seen like a validation mechanism that supports finding better design for the users

• Flow is taking the consumers to meta-designer level and encourage them to redesign the hybrid environment and mix new media

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Future research• The flow of a location

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Thank you