Adaptive browsing: Sensitivity to time pressure and task difficulty

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-25

  Wilkinson, Susan C ^a   Reader, Will ^b   Payne, Stephen J ^c  

^a CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Browsing; Information foraging; Sampling; Satisficing

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; INFORMATION FORAGING; LEARNING GOALS; SATISFICING; TASK DEMAND; TASK DIFFICULTY; TIME ALLOCATION; TIME PRESSURES; TIME SPENT;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 80052700438     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: 10959300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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