Technology in Society

Abstract An overview of flow theory is presented from the literature across multiple disciplines, including information systems, ecommerce, marketing, digital gaming, user interface, management, and cultural contexts. Flow can play a pivotal role in the user experience and impact the user interaction with a site, computing device, or app. It is worthwhile to examine the effects of flow experience on users and incorporate these findings in designing engaging user experiences and interfaces in both web sites and mobile applications. To further understand these implications, the present study gave a questionnaire to 310 participants in an experimental setting following an online shopping episode. The factor analysis revealed three dimensions of flow experience: control, attention focus, and cognitive enjoyment. All three dimensions had very low correlations. No gender effect on flow was found. The data set has the following flow variables: Control (FlwCtrl1, FlwCtrl2, FlwCtrl3); Attention (FlwAttn1, FlwAttn2, FlwAttn3); and Cognitive Enjoyment (FlwCEnj1, FlwCEnj2, FlwCEnj3, FlwCEnj4, FlwCEnj5, FlwCEnj6).

Meta data and data used in this article.

Data were collected from Lebanon and the UK about mobile banking adoption

Digital piracy in Poland data

Cross-sectional data on smallholder farming households from Zimbabwe

This dataset contains data collected in the form of a questionnaire (coded to numbers) to carry out the research and corresponding analysis.

Data to support the findings included in the Journal paper Elimelech, O. C., Ferrante, S., Josman, N., Meyer, S., Lunardini, F., Gómez-Raja, J., ... & Rosenblum, S. (2022). Technology use characteristics among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-cultural survey. Technology in Society, 71, 102080. These data were collected in the context of the ESSENCE project, and are aimed at understanding technology use characteristics among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, the ESSENCE project aims at transforming the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 in a huge opportunity that exploits technology toward a deep evolution of the services targeting vulnerable populations: non- or pre-frail seniors (targets of this study), and children of the first years of primary school. To contribute to the public health response in the context of the ongoing epidemic, and preparedness for future emergencies, ESSENCE aims at boosting the creation of a new model of home-based care that relies on stimulation, remote monitoring, tele-assistance, and connection between users, families, and professionals. Indeed, it was important to understand technology usage in the target population. Data were collected from Israel, Spain and France, in a multi-country design. The .PDF file contains the questionnaire. For more details, refer to the journal paper linked to this dataset. The .SAV file is an SPSS file that contains the answers to the questionnaire and their encoding.