Age differences in exploratory learning from a health information website

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3031-3040

  Chin, Jessie ^a   Fu, Wai Tat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Exploratory search; Knowledge structure; Learning; Recommended links

Indexed keywords

AGE DIFFERENCES; AGE GROUPS; BROWSING HISTORY; COGNITIVE ABILITY; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPLORATORY LEARNING; EXPLORATORY SEARCH; GENERAL KNOWLEDGE; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES; LEARNING; OLDER ADULTS; PROCESSING CAPACITIES; RECOMMENDED LINKS; SEARCH PROCESS; STRUCTURAL KNOWLEDGE; WEB LINKS;

AGING OF MATERIALS; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84862094798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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