Situation normality and the shape of search: The effects of time delays and information presentation on search behavior

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 909-928

  Taylor, Nolan J ^a   Dennis, Alan R ^a   Cummings, Jeff W ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

data presentation; information dissemination; information processing

Indexed keywords

DATA POINTS; DATA PRESENTATION; INFORMATION PRESENTATION; INFORMATION SEARCH; INFORMATION SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; TIPPING POINT; TOLERABLE DELAY;

DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84876288790     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22782     Document Type: Article

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