How students search for consumer health information on the web

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Efthimiadis, Efthimis N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

GRADUATE STUDENTS; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; SEARCH PROCESS; THINK-ALOUD PROTOCOLS; TRANSACTION LOGS; USER SATISFACTIONS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 63349106719     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.240     Document Type: Conference Paper

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