The effects of topic complexity and familiarity on cognitive and physical moves in a thesaurus-enhanced search environment

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 517-526

  Shiri, Ali Asghar ^a   Revie, Crawford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative studies; End users; Experts; Human computer interaction; Information seeking behaviour; Novices; Online information retrieval; Query formulation; Search strategies; Thesaurus use; Topic complexity; User interface

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA ACQUISITION; EVALUATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; THESAURI; USER INTERFACES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITIVE SEARCH; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR; PHYSICAL SEARCH; TOPIC COMPLEXITY;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 0347657156     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551503296008     Document Type: Article

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