Children's use of the Yahooligans! Web search engine: II. Cognitive and physical behaviors on research tasks

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 118-136

  Bilal, Dania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; STUDENTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BROWSING; COGNITIVE AND PHYSICAL BEHAVIORS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; WEB TRAINING;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 0035129989     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999<::AID-ASI1038>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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