International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Information-seeking strategies of novices using a full-text electronic encyclopedia
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
System demands on mental models for a fulltext database
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Wayfinding in an electronic database: the relative importance of navigational cues vs. mental models
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Computer analysis of user interfaces based on repetition in transcripts of user sessions
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Mental models: concepts for human-computer interaction research
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
A mental model can help with learning to operate a complex device
CHI '93 INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A visit to the information mall: Web searching behavior of high school students
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: youth issues in information science
Analysis of a very large web search engine query log
ACM SIGIR Forum
Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Users' interaction with World Wide Web resources: an exploratory study using a holistic approach
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Searching the Web: the public and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The influence of mental models and goals on search patterns during web interaction
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Insight into mental models of novice Internet searchers
Communications of the ACM - A game experience in every application
Mining longitudinal web queries: trends and patterns
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The effects of domain knowledge on search tactic formulation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Search engines and how students think they work
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Students' Mental Models of the Internet and Their Didactical Exploitation in Informatics Education
Education and Information Technologies
Undergraduate students' mental models of the Web as an information retrieval system
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Undergraduate students' mental models of the Web as an information retrieval system
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
23rd French Speaking Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
The impact of task complexity on people's mental models of MedlinePlus
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The art of metaphor: a method for interface design based on mental models
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry
Elderly mental model of reminder system
Proceedings of the 10th asia pacific conference on Computer human interaction
Deriving knowledge representation guidelines by analyzing knowledge engineer behavior
Decision Support Systems
Eliciting mental model of blind people for web page
i-CREATe '11 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology
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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 sophomores, participated in the study. Subjects' mental models of the Web were treated as equally good styles and operationalized as drawings of their perceptions about the Web. Four types of mental models of the Web were identified based on the drawings and the associated descriptions: technical view, functional view, process view, and connection view. In the study, subjects were required to finish two search tasks. Searching behavior was measured from four aspects: navigation and performance, subjects' feelings about tasks and their own performances, query construction, and search patterns. The four mental model groups showed different navigation and querying behaviors, but the differences were not significant. Subjects' satisfaction with their own performances was found to be significantly correlated with the time to complete the task. The results also showed that the familiarity of the task to subjects had a major effect on their ways to start interaction, query construction, and search patterns.