Mental models play a crucial role in explaining and driving human innovation activities. To
help researchers clarify the changes of mental models in various innovation situations, an …

Graphic elicitation techniques, which ask research participants to provide visual data
representing personal understandings of concepts, experiences, beliefs, or behaviors, can …

Discovery tools are emerging in libraries. These tools offer library patrons the ability to
concurrently search the library catalog and journal articles. While vendors rush to provide …

This two-wolume set (CCIS 1395-1396) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third
International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Network and Communication Technologies …

People's mental models of the Internet tend to focus on the functional affordances of Internet‐
enabled devices. Given that today's adolescents and young adults (Generation Z) have …

This article explores the effects of undergraduate students' mental models of the Web on
their online searching behavior. Forty-four undergraduate students, mainly freshmen and …

Although youth are increasingly going online to fulfill their needs for information, many youth
struggle with information and digital literacy skills, such as the abilities to conduct a search …

Metacognition is a set of active mental processes that allows users to monitor, regulate, and
direct their personal cognitive strategies. Improving Student Information Search traces the …

Modern web search engines use many signals to select and rank results in response to
queries. However, searchers' mental models of search are relatively unsophisticated …

Literature examining information judgments and Internet search behaviors notes a number
of major research gaps, including how users actually make these judgments outside of …