Today's students exhibit generational differences in the way they search for information.
Observations of first-year students revealed a proclivity for simple keyword or phrases …

Building on the success of previous editions, the 4th edition of 'Introduction to Human
Factors and Ergonomics' provides a comprehensive and up to date introduction to the field …

A fresh research approach that bridges the study of human information interaction and the
design of information systems. Human information interaction (HII) is an emerging area of …

BACKGROUND: Web 2.0 internet tools and methods have attracted considerable attention
as a means to improve health care delivery. Despite evidence demonstrating their use by …

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 …

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 …

This study explored undergraduate students' mental models of the Web as an information
retrieval system. Mental models play an important role in people's interaction with …

Searches for specific factual health information constitute a significant part of consumer
health information requests, but little is known about how users search for such information …

The ease with which individuals can access information has changed drastically with the
advent of the Internet. Understanding how this change in our information landscape …