Pausal behavior of end-users in online searching

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 425-444

  Huang, Mu Hsuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Information behavior; Information retrieval; Online searching; Pausal behavior

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; STUDENTS;

PAUSAL BEHAVIOR;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 0037408596     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(02)00040-7     Document Type: Article

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