Online health information seeking behaviour: Understanding different search approaches

Proceedings - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pang, Patrick Cheong Iao ^a   Chang, Shanton ^a   Pearce, Jon ^a   Verspoor, Karin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consumer health information; Exploratory search; Focused search; Information seeking behaviour; Search approach

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HEALTH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION USE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EXPLORATORY SEARCH; FOCUSED SEARCH; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOURS; SEARCH APPROACH;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84928630725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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