Effects of emotion control and task on Web searching behavior

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The study investigated how users’ emotion control and search tasks interact and influence the Web search behavior and performance among experienced Web users. Sixty-seven undergraduate students with substantial Web experience participated in the study. Effects of emotion control and tasks were found significant on the search behavior but not on the search performance. The interaction effect between emotion control and tasks on the search behavior was also significant: effects of users’ emotion control on the search behavior varied depending on search tasks. Profile analyses of search behaviors identified and contrasted the most commonly occurring profiles of search activities in different search tasks. Suggestions were made to improve information literacy programs, and implications for future research were discussed.

论文关键词:Affect,Information tasks,Search patterns,Web search,Web navigation

论文评审过程:Received 8 October 2006, Revised 17 November 2006, Accepted 17 November 2006, Available online 18 January 2007.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2006.11.008