A few weeks ago my second experiment was performed by 86 students of the University of Twente. The goal was to measure the (emotional) interaction experience of websites. In order to accomplish this, each student had to rate two different versions of a room search website.
The presented information (content) and the interaction path were the […]
We’ve just finished writing the paper for the Pleasurable Products and Interfaces’ conference, so it’s time to present some results. For now, I will post three scoring cards for the visual appeal of websites. The three websites clearly differ as the first is experienced as positive and the second as negative. The top 10 of […]
Posted in Measuring Emotions on February 21st, 2007 No Comments »
The experiment closed today. In three weeks time the server registered a total of 90 completed tests and 17.000 rated emotion words. I’m very satisfied with these numbers. A big thanks to you all who took the time and effort to participate, I known the test wasn’t easy. Next week I’ll contact the participant who […]
Posted in Measuring Emotions on February 1st, 2007 7 Comments »
The time has come to present the online version of my first experiment. In the mean time I’m planning the experiment in a lab setting for a second group of psychology students from the University of Twente. This experiment will start next Tuesday (the 6th).
I’d like to invite you in joining the experiment. It will […]
I’m currently in the middle of preparing the first experiment, with not much to show of it right now. Therefore, I want to present an interesting research by Eleanor Loiacono who developed Webqual with her colleagues: A tool to measure the quality of a website. They identified 4 categories composed of 12 constructs to predict […]
Back from a great week of ice-skating, sun, fun, food and sauna I’ll present the setup of my first experiment.
The Objective of the experiment is to determine whether the two dimensions (arousal and value) as found in Russel’s work are sufficient to describe web experience. Van Gorp translated the dimensions pleasure-displeasure and activation-deactivation into pleasant-unpleasant […]
Expressive facial reaction
The research area of facial expressions and emotions has a long history. In 1872 Darwin argued that certain emotional expressions are innate and the same for all people. Later evidence has indisputably shown that facial expressions are related to emotion both biologically and culturally. James and Tomkins promoted the idea that the feelings […]