Use of the world wide web for international travel: Integrating the construct of uncertainty in information seeking and the Task-Technology Fit (TTF) model

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 731-742

  D'Ambra, John ^a   Wilson, Concepción S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEARCH ENGINES;

HUMAN INFORMATION BEHAVIOR (HIB); INFORMATION RESOURCE; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; TASK TECHNOLOGY FIT (TTF);

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 2542443353     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20017     Document Type: Article

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