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J.A. Jacko (Ed.): Human-Computer Interaction, Part I, HCII 2011, LNCS 6761, pp. 359–367, 2011. ? Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 Finding a Relationship between Internet Anxiety and Human Behavior Santosh Kumar Kalwar, Kari Heikkinen, and Jari Porras Lappeenranta University of Technology, Department of Information Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland {Firstname.Lastname}@lut.fi Abstract. This chapter introduces a relationship between Internet anxiety and human behavior. The Internet has become an avenue for service provision, third-party applications, connectivity and social media. Thus, a clear understanding and comprehensive description of the relationship between Internet anxiety and human behavior becomes essential. The objective of this paper is to provide an assessment of the behavior and anxiety patterns of different age groups on the Internet. The study contributes to knowledge on human behavior and Internet anxiety. The preliminary investigation was realized with a small number of participants using qualitative research methodologies, including a structured themed interview. The result indicates that participants felt more anxiousness on Internet time delay anxiety, Experience anxiety, and Net Search anxiety. 1 Introduction “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” --Mark Twain With reference to above quoted sentence, imagine the world of the Internet as if it were a cat. It is understood that a user’s experience on the Internet might be pleasant or unpleasant. Thus, a user who uses contents on the Internet also “learns something that he can learn in no other way”. Regardless of millions views of ‘cat videos’ found in YouTube, thousands of friends created/destroyed in the Facebook, and countless contents spawning on the Internet daily, it is still extremely difficult to reduce and measure user’s behavior on the Internet. Moreover, one could argue that everybody wants to b