Task difficulty as a predictor and indicator of web searching interaction

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 959-964

  Kim, Jeonghyun ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information searching interaction; Information seeking behavior; Task; Task difficulty; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SEARCHING; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIORS; SEARCHING BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK; TASK DIFFICULTY; WEB-SEARCHING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 80052114300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1125451.1125636     Document Type: Conference Paper

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