Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Web search behavior of Internet experts and newbies
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
Differences between novice and experienced users in searching information on the World Wide Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: individual differences in virtual environments
A review of web searching studies and a framework for future research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
How knowledge workers use the web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The effects of domain knowledge on search tactic formulation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Associating search and navigation behavior through log analysis: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Using Multivariate Statistics (5th Edition)
Using Multivariate Statistics (5th Edition)
How evaluator domain expertise affects search result relevance judgments
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Characterizing the influence of domain expertise on web search behavior
Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
The role of expertise in aiding video search
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval
Exploratory information search by domain experts and novices
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Skim reading by satisficing: evidence from eye tracking
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Predicting users' domain knowledge from search behaviors
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Differences in search engine evaluations between query owners and non-owners
Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Examining users' knowledge change in the task completion process
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Incorporating user preferences into click models
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
Exploratory search with semantic transformations using collaborative knowledge bases
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
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The importance of background knowledge for effective searching on the Web is not well understood. Participants were given trivia questions on two topics and asked to answer them first using background knowledge and second by searching on the Web. Knowledge of a topic predicted search performance on that topic for all questions and, more importantly, for questions for which participants did not already know the answer. In terms of process, greater topic knowledge led to less time being spent on each Webpage, faster decisions to give up a line of inquiry and shorter queries being entered into the search engine. A more complete theory-led understanding of these effects would assist workers in a whole range of Web-related professions.