Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
11th International Conference on Culture and Civilization, Mardin, Türkiye, 22 - 23 Şubat 2022, ss.154-159
The widespread use of technology in practically every
aspect of life has accompanied with the growing interest in the potential of
technology to improve well-being and human flourishing through mobile
applications (apps). Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at
all ages is one of the United Nation’s goals of sustainable development and mindfulness
mobile apps are considered as a tool to enhance the mental health and the
wellbeing of the humans. The significance of the topic requires further and
deeper investigation where the user experience of mindfulness-based apps remain
uncovered in the extant literature. Thus, considering the vitality of the
subject and to remedy the current gap the current paper aims to reveal the determinants
of user experience which in turn may lead to the intention of downloading and
paying for a mindfulness-based mobile application. Holding that the topic in
terms of user experience is an emerging body of literature it requires an
in-depth investigation thus, the nature of the research question entails
exploratory research. Data is collected via focus group studies conducted on
January 2021. According to the results of the content analysis, five 3rd
order themes have been revelead: the expected attributes from a mindfulness mobile
application, dissatisfactory attributes of a mindfulness mobile application, motivation
criteria for non-users, motivation criteria for users, and determinants of
downloading a mindfulness mobile application. This study is expected to
contribute to the literature which lacks exploratory studies to discover the
factors that enhance the user experience regarding mindfulness-based mobile applications.