FLIGBY for graduates’ employability enhancement in Computer Engineering (2024)

By: Almeida, F., & Buzady, Z. (2024).In: Computer Applications in Engineering Education (D1 category journal) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cae.22789 Abstract: Serious games can play a crucial role in developing competencies for the job market, offering an innovative and engaging approach to learning. This study uses FLIGBY to develop employability skills among computer engineering graduates. FLIGBY is a serious…

27 The Contribution of FLIGBY to the Entrepreneurial Learning Outcomes (2024)

By: Almeida, F., & Buzady, Z. (2024).In: Technology, Knowledge and Learning (D1 category Journal) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-024-09729-2 Abstract This study explores the contribution of serious game teaching technology, such as FLIGBY, to the development of entrepreneurial learning outcomes in the context of an entrepreneurship course in higher education. The sample is composed of 551 students through the…

Work Hard, Play Harder

Work and Play have been viewed as dichotomous concepts throughout history, with work representing serious and enforced tasks, while play represents activities done purely for enjoyment and pleasure. As the modern workforce undergoes radical changes, the gradual integration of the two concepts is being recognized and imbibed into contemporary work culture to foster greater creativity,…

26 Conducting Flow: A Quantitative Correlational Study of Music Conductor Leadership Traits in Millennial Business Managers (Doctoral Dissertation in Educational Leadership, 2024)

by: Corey Ames Ed.D. Abstract Individuals born between 1981 and 1996 are expected to be the dominant generation in the workforce by 2025. The problem is conventional leadership applications seem unrelated to the millennial generation’s need for workplace autonomy and adapting to volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous conditions. There is a gap in information about…

Csikszentmihalyi’s Good Business – Flow and Leadership

Professor Csikszentmihalyi’s Good Business is more than a bestseller book. It’s rather a guide for anyone who values the positive contributions of individuals in the changing world of business. Prof. Csikszentmihalyi, who introduced the concept of “Flow”, extends its application in his book “Good Business” to the role of business in society. Csikszentmihalyi describes “Good Business” as a guidance for…

Musician Flow Component

A New Approach to Promoting Flow in the Workplace Today’s leaders face an insurmountable challenge of retaining high-quality employees. Not only are volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) situations arising, the workforce is embarking on a generational shift with significant implications for the effectiveness of more traditional and transactional leadership styles. When observing the sustainable…

The Harmony of Climate and Culture

An Audience Perspective on Leadership Flow Impact The complexities of leadership often go unnoticed. When attending the performance of a symphony orchestra, there is often a visual understanding that the positive climate and culture a conductor creates with their musicians produces the highest quality of music (Meals, 2020). On one such occasion, I had the…

EEG to better fit the player’s skill level – enabling a stable Flow state in a serious game

Using EEG data as Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in a serious game about plastic pollution in the oceans DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3582515.3609512 By: Thomas Bjørner, Associate Professor and Head of Media Innovation & Game Research, Aalborg University. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9071-7168 In: Bjørner, T. (2023). Using EEG data as Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in a serious game about the plastic pollution in…

Wishing for Happiness? But is your faith misplaced?

In the present time, two categories of individuals hold the clearest title to providing for the material and spiritual needs of the community. But is your faith misplaced? Prof. Mihály, CSÍKSZENTMIHÁLYI, “GOOD BUSINESS” Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning, 2003 As a first step, we should consider what it has meant to be a…