Online search stopping behaviors: An investigation of query abandonment and task stopping

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wu, Wan Ching ^a   Kelly, Diane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Human information behavior; Interactive IR; Query abandonment; Search stopping behavior; Search strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961956877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2014.14505101030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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