Web search strategies and human individual differences: Cognitive and demographic factors, internet attitudes, and approaches

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 741-756

  Ford, Nigel ^a   Miller, David ^a   Moss, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY; COGNITIVE SEARCHES; DEMOGRAPHIC FEATURES; WEB SEARCHING;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 19944371409     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20168     Document Type: Article

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