The presentation of health-related search results and its impact on negative emotional outcomes

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 333-342

  Lauckner, Carolyn ^a   Hsieh, Gary ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health literacy; Negative effects; Online health information

Indexed keywords

HEALTH INFORMATIONS; HEALTH LITERACY; NEGATIVE EFFECTS; ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

HEALTH;

EID: 84877979142     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2470702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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