Previous researches on Flow have focused on the intrapersonal aspect through which individuals can experience Flow. The balance between challenge and skill has been the most important precondition for Flow. However, Flow may be attainable through other methods especially in terms of historical and cultural perspectives. To provide an alternative explanation, the current study discussed Shinmyeo...

This dissertation is a defense of a particular theory of the metaphysics of time which I call “accretivism”, but which is popularly known in a form usually called the “Growing Block Theory”. The goal of a metaphysics of time is to incorporate the various aspects of our temporal experience into a single, comprehensive whole. To this end I delineate five aspects of our ordinary experience of time...

In this paper, driven primarily from our experiences with experimental deployments, we propose an architecture that enables the dynamic manipulation of data-flows inside sensor networks. Our architecture introduces conventions for defining and managing wires that connect software agents both inside and across, possibly heterogeneous devices. By introducing the notion of filters, we enable the d...

Knowledge Management is a discipline that investigates how to consolidate and augment individuals’ expertise and know-how and how to make them part of a corporate knowledge asset. We believe that this goal can not be achieved without defining a structured representation of the enterprise knowledge asset, that should act as the explicit context inside which each individual matches and augments h...

It is not unusual to experience a sense of total absorption, concentration, action-awareness, distortion of time and intrinsic enjoyment during an activity that involves music. Indeed, it is noted that there is a special relationship between these two aspects (i.e., music and flow experience). In order to deeply explore flow in the musical domain, it is crucial to consider the complexity of the...

INTRODUCTION Although a considerable amount of research has addressed psychopathological and personality correlates of creativity, the relationship between these characteristics and the phenomenology of creativity has been neglected. Relating these characteristics to the phenomenology of creativity may assist in clarifying the precise nature of the relationship between psychopathology and creat...

Citation: Kumar M and Dutt V (2018) Experience in a Climate Microworld: Influence of Surface and Structure Learning, Problem Difficulty, and Decision Aids in Reducing Stock-Flow Misconceptions. Front. Psychol. 9:299. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00299 Experience in a Climate Microworld: Influence of Surface and Structure Learning, Problem Difficulty, and Decision Aids in Reducing Stock-Flow Misconce...

Сontrolling the users’ motivation can significantly improve the efficiency and prognostic value of usability studies. The distinction between the extrinsic and intrinsic motivation plays a decisive role in computer-related activities. A well-developed theory of flow experience, introduced by M. Csikszentmihalyi within the school of positive psychology, is intimately related to intrinsic motivat...

The hard problem in artificial intelligence asks how the shuffling of syntactical symbols in a program can lead to systems which experience semantics and qualia. We address this question in three stages. First, we introduce a new class of human semantic symbols which appears when unexpected and drastic environmental change causes humans to become surprised, confused, uncertain, and in extreme c...