Learning by foraging: The impact of individual knowledge and social tags on web navigation processes

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-40

  Held, Christoph ^a   Kimmerle, Joachim ^b   Cress, Ulrike ^a  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information foraging; Learning; Social software; Social tagging; Tag clouds; Web navigation

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FORAGING; LEARNING; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; SOCIAL TAGGING; TAG CLOUDS; WEB NAVIGATION;

CLOUDS; NAVIGATION; USER INTERFACES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 80255137049     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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