Affective Feedback from Computers and its Effect on Perceived Ability and Affect: A Test of the Computers as Social Actor Hypothesis

Punya Mishra

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 15, No. 1 (January 2006) pp. 107–131

We report an experimental study that looked at two questions: (a) The effect of affective feedback from computers on participants' motivation and self-perception of ability; and (b) whether people respond similarly to computer feedback as they do to ...

Topics: Cognition, research, Usability, Educational Technology, psychology, Human Computer Interaction, Research Methods, Social Sciences