Affective and cognitive searching behavior of novice end-users of a full-text database
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on full-text retrieval
Learning the Internet and the structure of information behavior
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Ethnography of novices' first use of Web search engines: affective control in cognitive processing
Internet Reference Services Quarterly
Users' interaction with World Wide Web resources: an exploratory study using a holistic approach
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Cognitive styles and virtual environments
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: individual differences in virtual environments
Cognitive style and on-line database search experience as predictors of web search performance
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: individual differences in virtual environments
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information seeking and mediated searching study. Part 3: successive searching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Differences and similarities in information seeking: children and adults as web users
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Issues of context in information retrieval
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Pausal behavior of end-users in online searching
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
User-Centered Web Site Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach
User-Centered Web Site Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach
Affective feedback: an investigation into the role of emotions in the information seeking process
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
MM '09 Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Multimedia
The emotional impact of search tasks
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Using a concept map to evaluate exploratory search
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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This article presents part of phase 2 of a research project funded by the NSF-National Science Digital Library Project, which observed how academic users interact with the ScienceDirect information retrieval system for simulated class-related assignments. The ultimate goal of the project is twofold: (1) to find ways to improve science and engineering students' use of science e-journal systems; (2) to develop methods to measure user interaction behaviors. Process-tracing technique recorded participants' processes and interaction behaviors that are measurable; think-aloud protocol captured participants' affective and cognitive verbalizations; pre- and post-search questionnaires solicited demographic information, prior experience with the system, and comments. We explored possible relationships between affective feelings and cognitive behaviors. During search interactions both feelings and thoughts occurred frequently. Positive feelings were more common and were associated more often with thoughts about results. Negative feelings were associated more often with thoughts related to the system, search strategy, and task. Learning styles are also examined as a factor influencing behavior. Engineering graduate students with an assimilating learning style searched longer and paused less than those with a converging learning style. Further exploration of learning styles is suggested.