The EmoQuest Project: Emotions in Q&A Sites

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the overall goals and expected contribution of the EmoQuest project. EmoQuest is a three-year multi-disciplinary research project whose main goal is to understand the role of emotions in social media-based knowledge sharing, specifically in online Question and Answer (Q&A) sites. The main research domain of EmoQuest is Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), with expected outputs in Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Linguistics, and Psychology.