Mouse Rage Syndrome

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When Mouse Rage Syndrome (dt. Mouse Rage Syndrome ) are stress -Symptoms referred, allegedly by poorly built into PC users sites can be caused. This term was first used in 2005 in a study by the UK Social Issues Research Center . It is not a medical term.

The study was commissioned by the UK web hosting company Rackspace . It is based on surveys of 2500 test subjects. The subjects were first shown a “perfect” website. Badly designed pages were then demonstrated. Most of the subjects reportedly showed pronounced signs of stress, high blood pressure , angry mouse clicks and profuse sweating. The symptoms are thus caused by slow and confusing websites, unavailable services, pop-ups or advertising banners.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ ORF article on the study