• DocumentCode
    2628820
  • Title

    Does the mood matter?

  • Author

    Lopatovska, Irene

  • Author_Institution
    Pratt Inst., New York, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    10-12 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACII.2009.5349588
  • Filename
    5349588