Insight into mental models of novice internet searchers

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 133-136

  Brandt, D Scott ^a   Uden, Lorna ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS (ACTA); INTERNET SEARCHERS; SYSTEM MODEL; TASK KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES (TKS);

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEARCH ENGINES;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 4243166904     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/792704.792711     Document Type: Review

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