CHI '87 Proceedings of the SIGCHI/GI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and Graphics Interface
The vocabulary problem in human-system communication
Communications of the ACM
Active paths through multimedia documents
Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing on Document manipulation and typography
Using latent semantic analysis to improve access to textual information
CHI '88 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information-seeking strategies of novices using a full-text electronic encyclopedia
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Behavioral evaluation and analysis of a hypertext browser
CHI '89 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Scripted documents: a hypermedia path mechanism
HYPERTEXT '89 Proceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Hypertext
Knowledge-based search tactics
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Orienteering in an information landscape: how information seekers get from here to there
INTERCHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERCHI '93 conference on Human factors in computing systems
The cost structure of sensemaking
CHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information processing in the context of medical care
SIGIR '95 Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Medical students' personal knowledge, searching proficiency, and database use in problem solving
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
A knowledge-based approach to organizing retrieved documents
AAAI '99/IAAI '99 Proceedings of the sixteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence and the eleventh Innovative applications of artificial intelligence conference innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Guided paths through web-based collections: design, experiences, and adaptations
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - digital libraries: Part 1
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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
Empirical studies of end-user information searching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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
Optimizing search by showing results in context
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The scatter of documents over databases in different subject domains: how many databases are needed?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Strategy hubs: next-generation domain portals with search procedures
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subject Knowledge, Source of Terms, and Term Selection in Query Expansion: An Analytical Study
Proceedings of the 24th BCS-IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research: Advances in Information Retrieval
Reproduced and emergent genres of communication on the World-Wide Web
HICSS '97 Proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Digital Documents - Volume 6
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
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Characterizing the influence of domain expertise on web search behavior
Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Technical construction methods for e-marketplace
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce
Scatter matters: Regularities and implications for the scatter of healthcare information on the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Recent studies suggest that the wide variability in type, detail, and reliability of online information motivate expert searchers to develop procedural search knowledge. In contrast to prior research that has focused on finding relevant sources, procedural search knowledge focuses on how to order multiple relevant sources with the goal of retrieving comprehensive information. Because such procedural search knowledge is neither spontaneously inferred from the results of search engines, nor from the categories provided by domain-specific portals, the lack of such knowledge leads most novice searchers to retrieve incomplete information. In domains like healthcare, such incomplete information can lead to dangerous consequences. To address the above problem, a new kind of domain portal called a Strategy Hub was developed and tested. Strategy Hubs provide critical search procedures and associated high-quality links to enable users to find comprehensive and accurate information. We begin by describing how we collaborated with physicians to systematically identify generalizable search procedures to find comprehensive information about a disease, and how these search procedures were made available through the Strategy Hub. A controlled experiment suggests that this approach can improve the ability of novice searchers in finding comprehensive and accurate information, when compared to general-purpose search engines and domain-specific portals. We conclude with insights on how to refine and automate the Strategy Hub design, with the ultimate goal of helping users find more comprehensive information when searching in unfamiliar domains. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.