The impact of user experience levels on web credibility judgments

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 47, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ahmad, Rahayu ^a   Komlodi, Anita ^a   Wang, Jieyu ^a   Hercegfi, Karoly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Credibility judgments; User expertise; Web search behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861450470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504701180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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