Older people as information seekers: Exploratory studies about their needs and strategies

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4554 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 877-886

  Dinet, Jérôme ^a   Brangier, Eric ^a   Michel, Gabriel ^a   Vivian, Robin ^a   Battisti, Sophie ^a   Doller, Rémi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive dimension; Information search; Metamemory; Older people; Senior

Indexed keywords

RESOURCE ALLOCATION; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COGNITIVE DIMENSION; INFORMATION SEARCH; METAMEMORY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 38149033013     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73279-2_98     Document Type: Conference Paper

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