Relationship between Search Task and Emotional Statehile Using Google Search Engine

Abstract

This  quasi  experimental  research  aimed  at  examining  the  relationship between types of search tasks and emotional state of 38 undergraduate students while conducting information search through Google search engine. The study sample were assigned to search for 3 types of scholarly works: factual search, interpretive search, and exploratory search, and their emotional state during the search performances is examined to find its relationship responding to each search task.  The findings  indicated  that  the  emotional  state  in  each  search  task  was statistically different. For factual search task, sadness prevailed at the most, while fear occurred at the least. In interpretive search task, the participants exhibited surprise the least. In exploratory search, joy, fear and love were present at the highest level. The results of this study make worthy contribution to the development of search engines to increase usability and satisfy the student users