Journal
SENSORS
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s22020547
Keywords
affective pictures; emotions; eye-tracking; face emotion recognition; advertisements
Funding
- National Science Centre of Poland [2017/27 /B/HS4/01216]
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This study examines the impact of pop-up emotional content on user reactions, finding that negative content evokes lower negative impact compared to positive content during cognitive process interruptions, offering insight on how to provide more efficient Internet advertising.
When reading interesting content or searching for information on a website, the appearance of a pop-up advertisement in the middle of the screen is perceived as irritating by a recipient. Interrupted cognitive processes are considered unwanted by the user but desired by advertising providers. Diverting visual attention away from the main content is intended to focus the user on the appeared disruptive content. Is the attempt to reach the user by any means justified? In this study, we examined the impact of pop-up emotional content on user reactions. For this purpose, a cognitive experiment was designed where a text-reading task was interrupted by two types of affective pictures: positive and negative ones. To measure the changes in user reactions, an eye-tracker (for analysis of eye movements and changes in gaze points) and an iMotion Platform (for analysis of face muscles' movements) were used. The results confirm the impact of the type of emotional content on users' reactions during cognitive process interruptions and indicate that the negative impact of cognitive process interruptions on the user can be reduced. The negative content evoked lower cognitive load, narrower visual attention, and lower irritation compared to positive content. These results offer insight on how to provide more efficient Internet advertising.
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