Luã Marcelo Muriana, J. G. D. Silva, Andressa Cristina dos Santos
Oct 22, 2019
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Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abstract
Self-esteem is the assessment a person makes, and certainly maintains, about some aspects of himself/herself through emotional responses that she/he experiences, contemplates, and evaluates about these different aspects. Thus, as a person's affective state may be related to his/her level of self-esteem (positive affective states reflect high self-esteem and negative affective states are related to low self-esteem), this paper investigates the relationship between the concept and the use of contemporary technology. The affective states of some children with craniofacial deformities were analyzed while they interacted with a pervasive and ubiquitous computer system. The results presented and discussed were obtained along three workshops conducted with children in a hospital environment and were analyzed based on the affective categories of PANAS-X, a classic method used in the analysis of affective states. From the results obtained it was possible to establish relationships between the main affective states observed and some aspects of self-esteem, obtaining clues as to how technology can affect self-esteem and social relations between those involved.