Credibility and computing technology
Communications of the ACM
What makes Web sites credible?: a report on a large quantitative study
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Believe it or not: factors influencing credibility on the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Is seeing believing?: how recommender system interfaces affect users' opinions
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Prominence-interpretation theory: explaining how people assess credibility online
CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Learning to use a text processing system: Evidence from “thinking aloud” protocols
CHI '82 Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Human Problem Solving
The influence of structural and message features on Web site credibility
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A framework for understanding trust factors in web-based health advice
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
How older and younger adults differ in their approach to problem solving on a complex website
Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Cognition, Age, and Web Browsing
UAHCI '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Addressing Diversity. Part I: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Credibility: A multidisciplinary framework
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
The effect of aesthetics on web credibility
Proceedings of the 23rd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Celebrating People and Technology
Perceptions of trustworthiness online: the role of visual and textual information
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Interactive effects of age and interface differences on search strategies and performance
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Effects of cognitive aging on credibility assessment of online health information
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PERSUASIVE'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Persuasive technology
Enhancing credibility judgment of web search results
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Augmenting web pages and search results to support credibility assessment
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The impact of social information on visual judgments
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
To switch or not to switch: understanding social influence in online choices
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Older adults are a notable group among the exponentially growing population of online health information consumers. In order to better support older adults’ health-related information seeking on the Internet, it is important to understand how they judge the credibility of such information when compared to younger users. We conducted two laboratory studies to explore how the credibility cues in message contents, website features, and user-generated comments differentially impact younger (19 to 26 years of age) and older adults’ (58 to 80 years of age) credibility judgments. Results from the first experiment showed that older adults were less sensitive to the credibility cues in message contents and those in website features than younger adults. Verbal protocol analysis revealed that these differences could be caused by the higher tendency of older adults to passively accept web information, and their lack of deliberation on its quality and attention towards contextual web features (e.g., design look, source identity). In the second experiment, we studied how credibility cues from user reviews might differentially impact older and younger adults’ credibility judgments of online health information. Results showed that consistent credibility cues in user reviews and message contents could facilitate older adults’ credibility judgments. When the two were inconsistent, older adults, as compared to younger ones, were less swayed by highly appraising user reviews given to low credibility information. These results provided important implications for designing health information technologies that better fit the older population.