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Components/Symptoms of flow on the Web
Merging of action and awareness
When an individual is in flow, they are concentrating and
narrowing down their activity. Therefore, an individual’s inner
experience may reveal the phenomenon of merging action and
awareness. The mind and action merge when individuals
experience high concentration in the flow state. An example of
high concentration in the flow state is a tennis player focusing
only on his or her opponent and tennis ball, disregarding all
external and internal activities, such as losing or yelling from an
audience. In the web environment, the merging of action and
awareness is realized when a user becomes the issue he or she is
debating, the words he or she is typing, the sentences he or she is
reading, or the machine he or she is working on. As a result,
people “just sit here and keep clicking and reading away”.
Examples of merging action and awareness are responses from
participants in a study of web flow:
"Connected to the material, like I had several books open at the
same time and was moving between them without pause."
"I feel [am!] totally concentrated on my task. There is nothing but
the keyboard, the screen and my thou