As hiring processes have increasingly moved online, having better digital skills could play an important role in successful job seeking. However, inequality suggests that people use the Internet different ways with varying levels of raising questions about who is most likely to be able search for jobs including on social media. This paper examines online searching, job-search process. Results s...

This position paper discusses approaches used to evaluate learning that results from searching and interacting with online content.

The Network-on-Chip (NoC) approach is a promising solution to the increasing complexity of on-chip communication problems due to its high scalability. A NoC architecture design with ultra-low latency and high throughput is critical in order to support a wide range of applications. In this paper, we propose novel spatial-based NoC resource allocation algorithms to reduce the communication conges...

This paper examines a dual-task method for the assessment of mental effort during online searching, having the users engage in two tasks simultaneously. Searching was assigned as a primary task and a visual observation was set up as a secondary task. The study participants were asked to perform two searches, one on the Web and the other in a webbased library system. Perceived search difficulty ...

The Internet has become a means by which people expand their social networks and form close relationships. Wu and Chiou (2009) demonstrated that more search options triggered excessive searching, leading to poorer decision making and reduced selectivity in finding partners for online romantic relationships. Regarding the more-means-worse effect, they argued that more searching leads to worse ch...

A mixed-design experiment was conducted to explore differences between searching and surfing on cognitive and emotional responses to online news. Ninety-two participants read three unpleasant news stories from a website. Half of the participants acquired their stories by searching, meaning they had a previous information need in mind. The other half of the participants acquired their stories by...

Previous studies have examined the online research behaviors of graduate students in terms of how they seek and retrieve research-related information on the Web across diverse disciplines. However, few have focused on graduate students’ searching activities, and particularly for their research tasks. Drawing on Kuiper, Volman, and Terwel’s (2008) three aspects of web literacy skills (searching,...