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The purpose of this paper is to determine if Internet anxiety is a myth or reality using literature, questionnaires, and analysis of the collected data. Results showed that the Internet anxiety phenomenon is mostly reality. By placing strong emphasis on the existent Internet anxiety phenomenon, the HCI community could constructively build effective tools and techniques to mitigate users’ anxiety.
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Kalwar, S.K., Heikkinen, K., Porras, J. (2013). Internet Anxiety: Myth or Reality?. In: Kurosu, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Towards Intelligent and Implicit Interaction. HCI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39342-6_47
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