Towards an embodied view of flow

Abstract

Flow is a psychological construct that has been used to describe states of optimal experience and intrinsic motivation. We claim that adaptions of flow made from psychological into computing studies have been done without a careful consideration of the original concept and that frequently they are the product of conceptual misunderstandings. We propose a view of flow for computing studies based on notions of phenomenology and embodied interaction and analyse the major characteristics of this concept from this embodied view.