{"title":"Students' emotional reactions when interacting with Information and Communication Technologies. A key element in improving assimilation","authors":"Mercedes Llorent-Vaquero, Juan De Pablos-Pons","doi":"10.30557/qw000061","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this work is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between the emotions that ICTs evoke in students and their assimilation of these technologies. To this end, a qualitative and descriptive methodology based on a student questionnaire was designed for data collection. The results show that ICTs evoked strong positive emotions in the students interacting with them, whose assimilation of these technologies was high. There were positive correlations between the level of assimilation of ICTs and all the emotions experienced by the students. There were also differences in the assimilation of ICTs in terms of the emotions analyzed. Therefore, research on students' emotional reactions when interacting with ICTs is essential for improving their assimilation.","PeriodicalId":41384,"journal":{"name":"Qwerty","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Qwerty","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.30557/qw000061","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The aim of this work is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between the emotions that ICTs evoke in students and their assimilation of these technologies. To this end, a qualitative and descriptive methodology based on a student questionnaire was designed for data collection. The results show that ICTs evoked strong positive emotions in the students interacting with them, whose assimilation of these technologies was high. There were positive correlations between the level of assimilation of ICTs and all the emotions experienced by the students. There were also differences in the assimilation of ICTs in terms of the emotions analyzed. Therefore, research on students' emotional reactions when interacting with ICTs is essential for improving their assimilation.
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Qwerty is the commonly accepted name for the computer keyboard, comprising the first six letters of its top row. When typewriters were first introduced, the keys were arranged in alphabetical order. However this order meant that people typed too quickly such that the keys soon became entangled. To counter this, the keys were displayed in random order and typing speeds accordingly slowed down. In later years, despite the fact that the problem of speed had been completely overcome, the keyboard retained its random order. In our view, this represents an excellent metaphor for the entanglement of culture and technological tools. In actual fact, we regard computer-based technologies as cultural artefacts, representing different depths in the daily work and study activity of individuals, social groups, and institutions. We believe that different models of computer use and activity within online environments mediate social interaction. As such, the relationship between culture and technological tools is becoming more and more complex and now provides an opportunity for determining new models of cognitive, psychological, and social interaction. Qwerty hopes to be a place where such issues can be discussed and developed. The journal arises from a growing awareness of the need to develop research and reflection on the impact, effects and nature of technology use and, as such, is intended to be a genuinely cross-disciplinary forum. Qwerty wishes to provide a forum for discussion on the use of new technologies aimed at anyone interested in the use of technology in such fields as education, training, social and university research, including the cultural, social, pedagogical, psychological, economic, professional, ethical and aesthetical aspects of technology use.