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It has been found that while using a computer, human sense that they are performing a task. I think still computer interfaces do not keep user ‘staying in the flow' fully while working. At the same time in real life results are somewhat ironical. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has explored the characteristics for perceiving optimal experiences, with the issue of ‘flow'. People in a state of 'flow' are those who feel that they are engaged in a creative unfolding of something interesting; athletes call it ‘being in the zone', mystics have described as ‘ecstasy', and artists ‘rapture'. You and I may recognize our flow experiences as simply those activities (work, a hobby, some kind of service) which seem to make time stand still.
The core idea of the research initiatice 'Staying in the Flow' is to design interactions with machines, computers that we feel ‘in the flow'. As a part of the research I presented my paper titled ‘Functional metaphoric approach to be in the flow with software interfaces' at IHCI2004, Bangalore.
Presentation on 'FMA and FLOW', Bangalore at IHCI2004
Research paper Functional Metaphoric Approach to be in the flow with interfaces
Presentation at IDC on 'Flow and Interaction Design '
Links
research at elab on flow
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikzentmihaly
Something about Mihaly Csikzentmihaly