What was I looking for? The influence of task specificity and prior knowledge on students' search strategies in hypertext

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 15, Issue 3 SPEC., 2003, Pages 409-428

  Rouet, Jean François ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b MSHS   (France)

Author keywords

Domain knowledge; Hypertext; Information search; Question answering; Strategy

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS;

HIERARCHICAL HYPERTEXT;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038749200     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-5438(02)00064-4     Document Type: Article

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