Spatial-semantics: how users derive shape from information space
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: individual differences in virtual environments
Dynamic Queries for Visual Information Seeking
IEEE Software
The effects of domain knowledge on search tactic formulation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Trust and mistrust of online health sites
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How medical expertise influences web search interaction
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Visualization of health-subject analysis based on query term co-occurrences
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
MedSearch: a specialized search engine for medical information retrieval
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
How Students Search for Consumer Health Information on the Web
HICSS '09 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Analysis of multiple query reformulations on the web: The interactive information retrieval context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Tools-at-hand and learning in multi-session, collaborative search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Consumer health information is increasingly available online, but this vast amount of information is not necessarily accessible to general consumers. To design effective health information websites, it is critically important to gain an in-depth understanding of how consumers search for health information in these systems. This study is an attempt to explore consumer health information searching behavior in web-based health information spaces by observing their search behaviors in MedlinePlus. Nineteen undergraduate students accomplished three search tasks in MedlinePlus. The participants used both searching and browsing as interaction strategies. This paper reports on the findings of their searching behaviors, particularly query construction, query reformulation, and access to results; and their browsing behaviors, particularly access to different resources, health topics, and related topics. Furthermore, we examined if the number of concepts involved in search tasks had any impact on search behaviors.