What makes continued mobile gaming enjoyable?

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 68, Issue , 2017, Pages 411-421

  Merikivi, Jani ^a   Tuunainen, Virpi ^a   Nguyen, Duyen ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Continued use; Enjoyment; Mobile games; Post adoption behavior

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

CONTINUANCE INTENTIONS; CONTINUED USE; DESIGN AESTHETICS; ENJOYMENT; INTRINSIC FACTORS; MOBILE GAMES; NOCV1; POST-ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ADOPTION; ARTIFACT; BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; REGENERATION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

EID: 85002863930     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.11.070     Document Type: Article

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