Characterizing web users' online information behavior

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1988-1997

  Huang, Chun Yao ^a   Shen, Yung Cheng ^b   Chiang, I Ping ^c   Lin, Chen Shun ^d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CUBIC TYPOLOGY; SEARCH PROPENSITY; WEB USERS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 36849078885     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20669     Document Type: Article

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