Effects of emotion control and task on Web searching behavior
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چکیده
The study investigated how users’ emotion control and search tasks interact and influencethe Web search behavior and performance among experienced Web users. Sixty-sevenundergraduate students with substantial Web experience participated in the study. Effectsof emotion control and tasks were found significant on the search behavior but not on thesearch performance. The interaction effect between emotion control and tasks on thesearch behavior was also significant: effects of users’ emotion control on the searchbehavior varied depending on search tasks. Profile analyses of search behaviors identifiedand contrasted the most commonly occurring profiles of search activities in different searchtasks. Suggestions were made to improve information literacy programs, and implicationsfor future research were discussed.Abstract
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Inf. Process. Manage.
دوره 44 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008