Information equipment includes an open/close mechanism that opens or closes exhaust ports, a cooling fan that dissipates heat in the information equipment into the air through the exhaust ports, a user state detecting part that detects a contact state in which the hand of a user is in contact with the information equipment or a closeness state in which the hand of the user is close to the information equipment, and a heat dissipation control part that controls an open/closed state of the open/close mechanism so that heat exhausted from the exhaust ports is not directed to the hand of the user that is contact with or close to the information equipment, in accordance with the contact state or the closeness state detected by the user state detecting part.