Revisiting search task difficulty: Behavioral and individual difference measures
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Revisiting Search Task Difficulty: Behavioral and Individual Difference Measures
Search task characteristics are recognized as important factors that affect search process and its outcomes. This research examines the relationships among operational measures of searcher’s behavior, individual cognitive differences, subjective task difficulty and mental effort assed by dual-task performance. A web-based information study was conduced in a controlled experimental setting. Fort...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0044-7870
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2008.1450450249