Title :
How Students Search for Consumer Health Information on the Web
Author :
Efthimiadis, E.N.
Author_Institution :
Inf. Sch., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Abstract :
This study investigates how undergraduate and graduate students search the web for consumer health information. The 32 participants were asked to find answers to four health related topics. Data was collected through pre- and post search questionnaires, think-aloud protocol, and transaction logs. The results presented focus on the search process as a whole and by question and on the user satisfaction.
Keywords :
Internet; medical information systems; World Wide Web; consumer health information; search questionnaires; think-aloud protocol; transaction logs; user satisfaction; Access protocols; Blogs; Discussion forums; Frequency; Information resources; Information retrieval; Internet; Libraries; Medical services; Search engines;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2009. HICSS '09. 42nd Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Big Island, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3450-3
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2009.240
