Journal
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 268-305Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2017.1297642
Keywords
aesthetic experience; affordances; continuance of IT use; flow experience; gamification; user engagement; workplace gamification aesthetics in IT
Funding
- Council of the Hong Kong SAR [CityU 11531016, CityU 11507815]
- Korean Government [NRF-2013S1A3A2054667]
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Although gamification in the workplace is burgeoning, organizations frequently have difficulty sustaining user engagement with a gamified information system (IS). The focus of this study is how a gamified IS in the workplace engages users and encourages them to continue system use. By proposing the concepts of flow experience (FE) and aesthetic experience (AE) as different ways to provide deep and meaningful user engagement, this study develops a model that explores the antecedents of FE and AE and their roles in explaining an individual's continuance intention to use of a gamified IS. The model is tested using data collected from 178 users of a gamified IS in a global consulting company. The results demonstrate that although FE and AE are complementary forces, AE is more salient than FE for explaining continuance intention. The research proposes AE as a parsimonious yet powerful construct that extends the research on user engagement. The findings contribute to research on gamification by shifting scholarly attention from deep engagement characterized by FE to meaningful engagement characterized by AE.
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