Survey the role of emotion induction in information retrieval

The present study was conducted to identify the user's emotion induction in information retrieval.
The methodology of the present study is Survey research, and the type of study is practical. The society comprised all MA students majoring in different humanistic science branches and studying at Imam Reza international university. The sample society of this research included 42 students that investigated in two groups. Data collection was carried out by using different instruments, such as, demographic and prior experience of using internet questionnaire, post search questionnaire, success / failure in information retrieval questionnaire, recorded files, positive and negative affect schedule (PANAS), the Geneva affective picture database (GAPED), Keyboard-Tracer and River Past Screen Recorder software.
Findings: The findings of the study demonstrated that in simple search task, the difference in the positive and negative emotion induction group's performance was not significant, while in complicated search it was significant. In both simple and complicated search the difference was not significant. It was revealed that in complicated search task there was no significant difference between the types of user's emotions.
The information retrieval systems can have a best function if manages user interactions and system interactions and have positive effectives.