Children's use of the Yahooligans! Web search engine: I. Cognitive, physical, and affective behaviors on fact-based search tasks

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 646-665

  Bilal, Dania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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EID: 0001038283     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(2000)51:7<646::AID-ASI7>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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