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Making the news interesting: Understanding the Relationship Between Familiarity and Interest

This highly original work focuses on the task of predicting the emotion of interest that individuals subjectively experience during interaction with novel information (e.g. news article snippets). Other related work has thus far used typical ‘big’ emotion categories (e.g. happy or sad) to classify interaction experience, yet our information interaction is rarely so dramatic in the emotional response it provokes. Thus, this work makes a significant contribution towards a finer understanding of how epistemological emotions manifest and mediate information interaction, and crucially as the results of the experiment show, how the experience of interest can be predicted with knowledge of topic familiarity.