As online games grow in importance as an electronic commerce application, researchers and practitioners increasingly believe that understanding online game player behavior is critical to the success of online game vendors. In an attempt to gain new insights into the determinants of behavioral intention to play online games, we propose a theoretical model that augments the theory of reasoned act...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to analyse factors influencing subscribers’ usage of 3G mobile services in Taiwan. Design/methodology/approach – The research model, based on a technology acceptance model (TAM) and added perceived enjoyment, was tested by means of a two-stage structure equation modelling approach. Data were collected from 532 respondents via a web questionnaire survey. Fi...

An empirical investigation of how local harmonic structures (e.g., chord progressions) contribute to the experience and enjoyment of uplifting trance (UT) music is presented. The connection between rhythmic and percussive elements and resulting trance-like states has been highlighted by musicologists, but no research, to our knowledge, has explored whether repeated harmonic elements influence a...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this work is to examine reliability, factorial- and criterion-related validity, and measurement invariance across age and gender of the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale for children and adolescents in the German-speaking population. METHODS Confirmatory factor analysis was applied to questionnaire responses obtained from a cross-sectional sample (Study 1) of 250 girl...

OBJECTIVES To report on doctors' reasons, as expressed to our research group, for choosing academic careers and on factors that would make a career in clinical academic medicine more attractive to them. DESIGN Postal, email and web questionnaires. SETTING UK. PARTICIPANTS A total of 6936 UK-trained doctors who graduated in 1996, 1999 and 2000. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Open-ended comments a...

BACKGROUND Anecdotal evidence suggests that listening to oneself eating results in a more pleasurable eating experience. Maximising the sensory experience of eating can result in increased oral intake and is potentially valuable in improving nutritional status in at-risk patients. OBJECTIVE This pilot study investigates the association between listening to the sound of oneself eating and the ...

BACKGROUND Positive affective well-being (i.e., feelings of happiness and enjoyment) has been associated with longer survival and reduced incidence of serious illness. Our objective was to discover whether enjoyment of life also predicted a reduced risk of functional impairment over an 8-year period in a large population sample. METHODS We carried out a prospective analysis involving 3199 men...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between: a) the motivational climate developed by a national exercise franchise and b) members’ sense of ownership in and enjoyment of exercise. Members of a national exercise franchise (N=5,329) were surveyed to learn their views on the motivational climate (autonomy supportive, caring, taskand egoinvolving), exercise class ownership, a...

Social live streaming services (SLSS) have emerged as a new type of hedonic social media. SLSS allow users to watch and broadcast video streams in real-time, fostering sociability through synchronous communication via chat channels. While the extant literature has mostly examined producers’ use of SLSS, the consumer perspective has been underexplored. Prior research has identified perceived enj...

Research indicates that in order for customers to properly utilize recommendation assistants (RA), they must trust the RA and enjoy the interface. However, methods for increasing user enjoyment of RAs are yet unknown. This study investigated the influences of utilitarian and hedonic factors on intention to adopt RA suggestions and the antecedents of outcome similarity and web atmospherics. User...