Menus and memory load: navigation strategies in interactive search tasks
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Cognitive models of directional inference in expert medical reasoning
Expertise in context
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Travel Medicine practicing is particularly dependent on an important factual knowledge that must be continuously updated. This kind of knowledge can be found in Professional Electronic Documentations (PED), as specialized web sites or comprehensive off-line databases. In this study we show to what extent the use of a comprehensive pretravel database can compensate for a lack of knowledge in travel medicine during advice building despite inexperience in using such systems. Novices and experts in travel medicine have been solicited for building the adequate recommendations about real cases of international travels with the help of a specialized PED. Results indicate this PED helps a novice to build an advice that is on the whole equivalent to an expert's one in terms of quantity, if not of quality. Implications for the benefits of comprehensive PED to travel medicine practicing are discussed.