I very much welcome the prospects opened up by the creation of this website, and I fully endorse this initiative supported by the University of Lille and the I-Site ULNE Foundation (the project funder) in partnership with the European Flow Researchers Network (EFRN) and The Flow Channel, with a special thanks to Gary Gute, from the University of Northern Iowa, for his coordination with Pr. Jean Heutte to enable the dissemination of the international academic flow research in the French-speaking world.
This space of mutual interest and sharing will allow everyone to better understand and apply the results of scientific work on optimal experience, more particularly as it relates to education and training, the social dimensions of flow, and human activities in computer environments.
Moreover, the effort will help build a bridge between the French-speaking university community (often unfamiliar with the English language) and the international community of flow researchers. I would like to point out that even though I no longer speak or write in French because I haven't had much opportunity to do so for a long time, French is a language that is not foreign to me. Between 1952 and 1956, just before I decided to leave Europe to study psychology in Chicago, I was a correspondent in Italy for the well-known French newspaper Le Monde. This is why the effort to increase scientific knowledge of optimal experience in the French-speaking world also has has a sentimental value that touches me deeply.
Finally, I wish Pr. Jean Heutte great success in his initiative to create and coordinate an international research network on the social dimensions of optimal experience.
