Task difficulty and domain knowledge effects on information search behaviors

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Chang ^a   Liu, Jingjing ^b   Cole, Michael ^a   Belkin, Nicholas J ^a   Zhang, Xiangmin ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain knowledge; Dwell time; Information search behavior; Personalization; Task difficulty; User study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878597110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504901142     Document Type: Article

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