Emotional Impact on the User Experience in the Virtual Learning Environment

Resumo

This article aims to analyze the emotional impact on the user experience (UX) during interactions performed in the virtual learning environment. In orther to do this, it was applied the Affect Grid that classifies eight emotions experienced by users. The work included the participation of 12 students of the course of the distance Degree in Computing at the State University of Goias. It was analyzed and classified 60 responses during the interactions of the tasks performed in the virtual learning environment, observing the emotional impact of each task. The results suggest, that through the application of methods UX is possible to extract the emotions felt by the students during interactions in virtual learning environments.