Social, Transport and Tourism Solutions

Enjoyment and Task Difficulty

The Model

The model shown is a linear model showing the states of flow that a person goes through as task difficulty changes.  When task difficulty is low, boredom results, as task difficulty increases then the states of potential ‘Rush Based Enjoyment’ (RBE) and ‘Challenge Based Enjoyment’ (CBE) is passed through and on to anxiety.  The change of states is not instantaneously going directly from boredom to enjoyment or enjoyment to anxiety, rather the boundaries are fuzzy.  At the peak of enjoyment is the flow state.  Once the flow state has been exited then enjoyment drops off rapidly while anxiety, felt as risk, exceeds an acceptable level.