What Snippets Feel: Depression, Search, and Snippets

Authors

Ashlee Milton, Boise State University
Maria Soledad Pera, Boise State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2020

Abstract

Mental health disorders (MHD) is a rising, yet stigmatized, topic in the United States. Individuals suffering from MHD are slowing starting to overcome this stigma by discussing how technology affects them. Researchers have explored behavioral nuances that emerge from interactions of individuals affected by MHD with persuasive technologies, mainly social media. Yet, there is a gap in the analysis pertaining to search engines, another persuasive technology, which is part of their everyday lives. In this paper, we report the results of an initial exploratory analysis conducted to understand the sentiment/emotion profiles of search engines handling the information needs of searchers with MHD.

Comments

1st Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe, CIRCLE 2020, July 6, 2020 - July 9, 2020

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Publication Information

Milton, Ashlee and Pera, Maria Soledad. (2020). "What Snippets Feel: Depression, Search, and Snippets". CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2621.