Learning how: The search for craft knowledge on the internet

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1371-1380

  Torrey, Cristen ^a   Churchill, Elizabeth F ^b   McDonald, David W ^c  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Craft; Diy; Expertise locating; Hobbies; How to; Image search; Informal learning; Information seeking; Search; Search usability; Social search; Tutorial; Video search

Indexed keywords

CRAFT; DIY; EXPERTISE LOCATING; HOBBIES; HOW-TO; IMAGE SEARCH; INFORMAL LEARNING; INFORMATION SEEKING; SEARCH; SEARCH USABILITY; SOCIAL SEARCH; TUTORIAL; VIDEO SEARCH;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 84892456083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518908     Document Type: Conference Paper

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