Students' emotional reactions when interacting with Information and Communication Technologies. A key element in improving assimilation

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.