Adaptive information search: Age-dependent interactions between cognitive profiles and strategies

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1683-1692

  Chin, Jessie ^a   Fu, Wai Tat ^a   Kannampallil, Thomas ^a  

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

Author keywords

Age differences; And health literacy; Cognitive abilities; Cost benefit analysis; Ill defined task; Search strategies; Web search

Indexed keywords

AGE DIFFERENCES; COGNITIVE ABILITY; HEALTH LITERACY; ILL-DEFINED TASK; SEARCH STRATEGIES; WEB SEARCHES;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84892458148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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