# SYM: Toward a New Tool in User's Mood Determination

## TL;DR

This paper introduces SYM, a new prototype tool designed to determine user mood, aiming to improve understanding and measurement of affective states in various user experience contexts.

## Contribution

The paper presents a novel tool, SYM, for user mood determination, addressing the lack of normalized tools in affective state measurement.

## Key findings

- SYM provides a new approach to mood detection
- Potential applications across diverse user experience studies
- Addresses gap in standardized mood assessment tools

## Abstract

Even though the emotional state is increasingly taken into account in scientific studies aimed at determining user experience of user acceptance, there are still only a few normalized tools. In this article, we decided to focus on mood determination as we consider this affective state to be more pervasive and more understandable by the person who is experiencing it. Thus, we propose a prototypical tool called SYM (Spot Your Mood) as a new tool in user mood determination to be used in many different situations.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1902.02996