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IHI
2012
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12 years 18 days ago
Health information searching behavior in MedlinePlus and the impact of tasks
Consumer health information is increasingly available online, but this vast amount of information is not necessarily accessible to general consumers. To design effective health in...
Yan Zhang, Peiling Wang, Amy Heaton, Heidi Winkler
JUCS
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
The Impact of Behavioral Monitoring Technology on the Provision of Health Care in the Home
: The lack of appropriate and accurate information on the ability of a frail individual to accomplish specific task oriented activities can place the individual at risk or result i...
Anthony P. Glascock, David M. Kutzik
CHI
2009
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Adaptive information search: age-dependent interactions between cognitive profiles and strategies
Previous research has shown that older adults performed worse in web search tasks, and attributed poorer performance to a decline in their cognitive abilities. We conducted a stud...
Jessie Chin, Wai-Tat Fu, Thomas George Kannampalli...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Interactive effects of age and interface differences on search strategies and performance
We present results from an experiment that studied the information search behavior of younger and older adults in a medical decision-making task. To study how different combinatio...
Jessie Chin, Wai-Tat Fu
WSDM
2012
ACM
258views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 17 days ago
Large-scale analysis of individual and task differences in search result page examination strategies
Understanding the impact of individual and task differences on search result page examination strategies is important in developing improved search engines. Characterizing these e...
Georg Buscher, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jef...