Web searching for health: Theoretical foundations for analyzing problematic search engine use

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6984 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 59-66

  Rao, Pallavi ^a   Skoric, Marko M ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cognitive Shift; Online Health Information Retrieval; Problematic Internet Use; Problematic Search Engine Use; Web Search

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SHIFT; ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION; PROBLEMATIC INTERNET USE; PROBLEMATIC SEARCH ENGINE USE; WEB SEARCHES;

HEALTH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 80054068615     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24704-0_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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