摘要：Flow experience is achieved when a person is said to be “in the zone” as they achieve a fit
between skill-and-challenge level in a certain activity. Many of these activities, such as video
games, music, or athletic competitions, involve the participation or company of other
people. Thus, interpersonal communication could be related to reaching the mental state of
flow. Previous research has linked brain areas like the inferior frontal gyrus to individual
flow. However, no experiments have yet been conducted on interpersonal flow. The largescale
purpose of this project is to fill this gap by identifying the neural correlations of
interpersonal flow. In order to do so, objective measurements of the inherently subjective
flow experience must first be identified. In this study, we evaluated eye measurements such
as pupil diameter, blink rate and eye fixations as objective measures for individual flow. Two
versions of our experiment using a musical notes game were conducted on ten and six
subjects respectively with eye measures being collected using Eyelink 1000. While there was
a significant difference in gaze direction among various gaming levels, there appeared to be
no significant change in blink rates or pupil size. This suggests that gaze direction could be
an objective measurement of flow experience.
