Title :
Does the mood matter?
Author :
Lopatovska, Irene
Author_Institution :
Pratt Inst., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
We report the results of the experiment that examined effects of mood on search performance. Participants were asked to use Google search engine to find answers to two questions. Searchers´ mood was measured using the Positive Affect and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS). Search performance was measured by number of websites visited, time spent reading search results, quality of answers and other similar measures. Analysis of relationship between the mood and search performance indicated that positive mood prior to the search affected certain search behaviors, but neither positive nor negative moods had significant effect on the quality of search results.
Keywords :
human computer interaction; search engines; Google search engine; PANAS; human computer interaction; mood; positive affect and negative affect scale; search performance; Human computer interaction; Impedance; Libraries; Mood; Performance analysis; Search engines; Software performance; Time measurement; Uncertainty; Uniform resource locators;
Conference_Titel :
Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and Workshops, 2009. ACII 2009. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4800-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4799-2
DOI :
10.1109/ACII.2009.5349588
