The effect of flow experience on player loyalty in mobile game application

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Highlights:

• To understand whether factors influence the player loyalty through flow experience.

• Confirmed the relationship between flow experience and AF and PE in mobile games.

• Flow experience exerted a positive effect on player loyalty.

• Four factors of flow experience individually affect players’ PE and AF.

• Player loyalty increases when players enjoy and concentrate on playing a game.

摘要

•To understand whether factors influence the player loyalty through flow experience.•Confirmed the relationship between flow experience and AF and PE in mobile games.•Flow experience exerted a positive effect on player loyalty.•Four factors of flow experience individually affect players’ PE and AF.•Player loyalty increases when players enjoy and concentrate on playing a game.

论文关键词:Mobile game,Player loyalty,Human–computer interaction,Social interaction,Flow experience

论文评审过程:Received 23 November 2015, Revised 21 March 2016, Accepted 14 May 2016, Available online 21 May 2016, Version of Record 21 May 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.049