Heuristic and systematic use of search engines

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 778-800

  Wirth, Werner ^a   Böcking, Tabea ^b   Karnowski, Veronika ^b   Von Pape, Thilo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY;

DECISIONS MAKINGS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; DUAL-PROCESS THEORIES; ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE; PROCESS DECISIONS; PROCESS INFORMATION; QUASI-EXPERIMENTS; THINK ALOUD; WEB CONTENT ANALYSIS; WEB EXPERIENCES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 34250012282     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00350.x     Document Type: Article

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