Despite the potential importance of emotional aspects in information seeking, there is a lack of adequate attention to emotions' role in facilitating serendipitous information encountering. This paper contributes to this research gap by investigating the role of emotions during the process of perceiving and experiencing serendipitous information encountering in a controlled laboratory setting. The results show that applying a sketch game can stimulate participants' emotions. Our findings indicate that participants are more likely to experience serendipitous information encountering under the influence of positive emotions. This study contributes to an understanding of the relationship between emotions and the perception of serendipitous information encountering. The implications of the possibilities of facilitating positive emotions to induce serendipitous information encountering are discussed.

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调查情绪对感知偶然信息的影响

尽管情感方面在信息寻求中具有潜在的重要性，但对情感在促进偶然信息相遇方面的作用缺乏足够的关注。本文通过调查情绪在受控实验室环境中感知和体验偶然信息遇到的过程中的作用来填补这一研究空白。结果表明，应用素描游戏可以激发参与者的情绪。我们的研究结果表明，参与者更有可能在积极情绪的影响下体验偶然的信息。这项研究有助于理解情绪与对偶然信息相遇的感知之间的关系。