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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: World Wide Web usability
The tangled Web we wove: a taskonomy of WWW use
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
What do web users do? An empirical analysis of web use
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Website task performance by older adults
Behaviour & Information Technology
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UAHCI'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Universal access in human computer interaction: coping with diversity
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The current study examined how young (n=26; mean=22.31years) and older Internet users (n=24; mean=64.54years) performed when they had to select and recollect information displayed in Web pages. Content-oriented and navigation-oriented information-finding tasks were used during the study phase. At test, the method made use of two recognition paradigms designed to assess recollection and the nature of representations in memory: namely, the remember/know procedure and a forced-choice recognition procedure which made it possible to compare the retrieval of detailed (verbatim-based) and semantic (gist-based) representations. The evidence from both procedures suggested that remembering was less contextualised in older participants. Furthermore, the idea that content-oriented searches impose greater processing demands than navigation-oriented searches in Web pages was confirmed for both age groups. Interestingly, the older Internet users experienced more difficulties in finding targets in navigation-oriented searches than in content-oriented searches.