Web search strategies and human individual differences: Cognitive and demographic factors, Internet attitudes, and approaches Export

@article{citeulike:2292391, abstract = {The research reported here was an exploratory study that sought to discover the effects of human individual differences on Web search strategy. These differences consisted of (a) study approaches, (b) cognitive and demographic features, and (c) perceptions of and preferred approaches to Web-based information seeking. Sixty-eight master's students used AltaVista to search for information on three assigned search topics graded in terms of complexity. Five hundred seven search queries were factor analyzed to identify relationships between the individual difference variables and Boolean and best-match search strategies. A number of consistent patterns of relationship were found. As task complexity increased, a number of strategic shifts were also observed on the part of searchers possessing particular combinations of characteristics. A second article (published in this issue of JASIST; Ford, Miller, \& Moss, 2005) presents a combined analyses of the data including a series of regression analyses.}, address = {Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S10 4DP, United Kingdom}, author = {Ford, Nigel and Miller, David and Moss, Nicola}, citeulike-article-id = {2292391}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20168}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/110431341/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1002/asi.20168}, journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology}, keywords = {search\_engines, web\_epistemology}, number = {7}, pages = {741--756}, posted-at = {2008-01-26 11:35:33}, priority = {2}, title = {Web search strategies and human individual differences: Cognitive and demographic factors, Internet attitudes, and approaches}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20168}, volume = {56}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2292391 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2292391 N2 - The research reported here was an exploratory study that sought to discover the effects of human individual differences on Web search strategy. These differences consisted of (a) study approaches, (b) cognitive and demographic features, and (c) perceptions of and preferred approaches to Web-based information seeking. Sixty-eight master's students used AltaVista to search for information on three assigned search topics graded in terms of complexity. Five hundred seven search queries were factor analyzed to identify relationships between the individual difference variables and Boolean and best-match search strategies. A number of consistent patterns of relationship were found. As task complexity increased, a number of strategic shifts were also observed on the part of searchers possessing particular combinations of characteristics. A second article (published in this issue of JASIST; Ford, Miller, & Moss, 2005) presents a combined analyses of the data including a series of regression analyses. IS - 7 JF - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology AD - Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S10 4DP, United Kingdom EP - 756 TI - Web search strategies and human individual differences: Cognitive and demographic factors, Internet attitudes, and approaches VL - 56 SP - 741 KW - search_engines KW - web_epistemology AU - Ford, Nigel AU - Miller, David AU - Moss, Nicola PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20168 ER -