A new flow of Location Based Service mobile games: Non-stickiness on Pokémon Go

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Highlights：

• Gratification is a more important factor than Flow to predict Stickiness.

• The correlation between Flow and Stickiness is spurious in this study.

• Gratification is a front predictor to Flow and Stickiness.

• For average players, all independent variables are important.

• For advanced players, only Serendipity is important.

摘要

•Gratification is a more important factor than Flow to predict Stickiness.•The correlation between Flow and Stickiness is spurious in this study.•Gratification is a front predictor to Flow and Stickiness.•For average players, all independent variables are important.•For advanced players, only Serendipity is important.

论文关键词：Location based service (LBS),Mobile games,Flow,Uses and gratifications (U & G),Serendipity,Pokémon go

论文评审过程：Received 9 February 2018, Revised 6 June 2018, Accepted 20 July 2018, Available online 24 July 2018, Version of Record 11 August 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.07.023