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Flow Experience of Digital Contents: Focusing on the Case of Online Games

디지털 콘텐츠 몰입경험: 온라인게임 사례를 중심으로

  • 엄명용 (성균관대학교 글로벌 비즈니스리더양성사업단) ;
  • 김태웅 (성균관대학교 경영전문대학원)
  • Received : 2010.05.24
  • Accepted : 2010.07.20
  • Published : 2010.08.28
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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine a user's flow experience of digital contents. In the paper, the flow experience of digital contents was applied to the case of online games and it was experimentally investigated whether challenge and skill affect the user's flow experience. The results of the paper indicate that there are differences in the flow experience according to the level (low, medium, high) of challenge and skill in the context of online games. Furthermore, there is no interaction effect between challenge and skill affecting flow experience. The findings provide useful implications for IT firms that will plan to develop and design digital contents.

본 논문의 목적은 디지털 콘텐츠에 대한 사용자의 몰입경험(flow experience)을 탐색하는 것이다. 구체적으로, 본 논문은 디지털 콘텐츠에 대한 몰입경험을 온라인게임 사례(case)에 적용하여 도전감과 숙련도가 사용자의 몰입경험에 어떠한 영향을 주는가를 실증적으로 분석하였다. 연구결과 도전감과 숙련도의 수준(낮음, 보통, 높음)에 따라 디지털 콘텐츠(온라인게임) 사용자의 몰입경험은 유의한 차이를 보였다. 또한, 몰입경험에 대한 도전감과 숙련도 사이의 상호작용(interaction effect)은 존재하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 본 논문의 결과는 향후 디지털 콘텐츠를 개발하고 디자인하는 IT기업에게 유용한 시사점을 제공하리라 본다.

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