International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Computers in the Schools - Special issue: multimedia and megachange—new roles for educational computing, part 2
Searcher response in a hypertext-based bibliographic information retrieval system
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Why are online catalogs still hard to use?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: current research in online public access systems
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Users' interaction with World Wide Web resources: an exploratory study using a holistic approach
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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
Assessment of the effects of user characteristics on mental models of information retrieval systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Modern Information Retrieval
The influence of mental models and goals on search patterns during web interaction
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Exploring the Digital Library: A Guide for Online Teaching and Learning (Online Teaching and Learning Series (OTL))
Adaptive information search: age-dependent interactions between cognitive profiles and strategies
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Influence of Cognitive and Personality Characteristics on User Navigation: An Empirical Study
UAHCI '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Part III: Applications and Services
Interactive effects of age and interface differences on search strategies and performance
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Review: Computer use by older adults: A multi-disciplinary review
Computers in Human Behavior
Influencing technology adoption by older adults
Interacting with Computers
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)
The relationship between cognitive abilities, well-being and use of new technologies in older people
Proceedings of the 28th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
EPCE'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Engineering psychology and cognitive ergonomics
Age differences in credibility judgment of online health information
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)
Age differences in exploratory learning from a health information website
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Understanding the role of age and fluid intelligence in information search
Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
From republicans to teenagers --- group membership and search (GRUMPS)
ECIR'13 Proceedings of the 35th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Designing for the wisdom of elders: age related differences in online search strategies
UAHCI'13 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: user and context diversity - Volume 2
Age differences in credibility judgments of online health information
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
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This study investigated the influences of knowledge, particularly Internet, Web browser, and search engine knowledge, as well as cognitive abilities on older adult information seeking on the Internet. The emphasis on aspects of cognition was informed by a modeling framework of search engine information-seeking behavior. Participants from two older age groups were recruited: twenty people in a younger-old group (ages 60-70) and twenty people in an older-old group (ages 71-85). Ten younger adults (ages 18-39) served as a comparison group. All participants had at least some Internet search experience. The experimental task consisted of six realistic search problems, all involving information related to health and well-being and which varied in degree of complexity. The results indicated that though necessary, Internet-related knowledge was not sufficient in explaining information-seeking performance, and suggested that a combination of both knowledge and key cognitive abilities is important for successful information seeking. In addition, the cognitive abilities that were found to be critical for task performance depended on the search problem's complexity. Also, significant differences in task performance between the younger and the two older age groups were found on complex, but not on simple problems. Overall, the results from this study have implications for instructing older adults on Internet information seeking and for the design of Web sites.