Why people stick to play social network site based entertainment applications: Design factors and flow theory perspective

PACIS 2010 - 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1041-1050

  Wu, Yi ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a   Chang, Klarissa ^a   Xu, Yunjie ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Flow theory; Inherent sociability; Inter application interactivity; Multiplay asynchronicity; Perceived playfulness; Social network site based entertainment applications; Symbolic physicality

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONICITY; FLOW THEORIES; INHERENT SOCIABILITY; INTERACTIVITY; PERCEIVED PLAYFULNESS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SYMBOLIC PHYSICALITY;

DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84862962405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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