Heuristic and Systematic Use of Search Engines
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Heuristic and Systematic Use of Search Engines
It is becoming increasingly important to understand in greater detail how people process information and make decisions while searching on the World Wide Web. With the distinction between systematic and heuristic processing, dual-process theories and decision theory provide a useful framework for analyzing this decision-making. A laboratory quasi-experiment was conducted, combining a client-ori...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1083-6101,1083-6101
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00350.x