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  • × author_ss:"Zhang, Y."
  • × language_ss:"e"
  • × theme_ss:"Internet"
  • × year_i:[2000 TO 2010}
  1. Zhang, Y.: Undergraduate students' mental models of the Web as an information retrieval system (2008) 0.00 
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    Abstract
    This study explored undergraduate students' mental models of the Web as an information retrieval system. Mental models play an important role in people's interaction with information systems. Better understanding of people's mental models could inspire better interface design and user instruction. Multiple data-collection methods, including questionnaire, semistructured interview, drawing, and participant observation, were used to elicit students' mental models of the Web from different perspectives, though only data from interviews and drawing descriptions are reported in this article. Content analysis of the transcripts showed that students had utilitarian rather than structural mental models of the Web. The majority of participants saw the Web as a huge information resource where everything can be found rather than an infrastructure consisting of hardware and computer applications. Students had different mental models of how information is organized on the Web, and the models varied in correctness and complexity. Students' mental models of search on the Web were illustrated from three points of view: avenues of getting information, understanding of search engines' working mechanisms, and search tactics. The research results suggest that there are mainly three sources contributing to the construction of mental models: personal observation, communication with others, and class instruction. In addition to structural and functional aspects, mental models have an emotional dimension.
    Source
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 59(2008) no.13, S.2087-2098
  2. Zhang, Y.: Using the Internet for survey research : a case study (2000) 0.00 
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    Source
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 51(2000) no.1, S.57-68
  3. Zhang, Y.: Scholarly use of Internet-based electronic resources (2001) 0.00 
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    Source
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and technology. 52(2001) no.8, S.628-654
  4. Zhang, Y.; Jansen, B.J.; Spink, A.: Identification of factors predicting clickthrough in Web searching using neural network analysis (2009) 0.00 
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    Source
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 60(2009) no.3, S.557-570

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