Do your friends make you smarter?: An analysis of social strategies in online information seeking

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 679-692

  Evans, Brynn M ^a   Kairam, Sanjay ^b   Pirolli, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive task analysis; Information processing; Question answering; Social information seeking; Social search; Verbal protocols

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; QUESTION ANSWERING; SOCIAL INFORMATION; SOCIAL SEARCH; VERBAL PROTOCOLS;

DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION USE; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; JOB ANALYSIS; SEARCH ENGINES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 77956618943     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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