Factors Affecting Mental Models in CD-ROM Searching: A Preliminary Investigation

Factors Affecting Mental Models in CD-ROM Searching: A Preliminary Investigation

This article attempts to investigate possible factors affecting mental models in CD-ROM searching. The subjects were college and graduate students of National Taiwan University. They used PsyLIT CD-ROM database to search their own questions. After instructions, 52 subjects did 58 searchers. Accordin...

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Main Author: Mu-Hsuan Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Taiwan University 2000-12-01
Series:Journal of Library and Information Studies
Subjects:
information seeking
information retrieval
mental model
Online Access:https://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/files/journal/j15-2.pdf
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spelling doaj-38dfe309879241f09b83ade8b2b71c482021-02-02T05:52:12ZengNational Taiwan UniversityJournal of Library and Information Studies1606-75091606-75092000-12-0115193610.6182/jlis.2000.15.019Factors Affecting Mental Models in CD-ROM Searching: A Preliminary InvestigationMu-Hsuan Huang0Department of Library and Information Science National Taiwan University This article attempts to investigate possible factors affecting mental models in CD-ROM searching. The subjects were college and graduate students of National Taiwan University. They used PsyLIT CD-ROM database to search their own questions. After instructions, 52 subjects did 58 searchers. According to search terms selections, four types of mental models were identified. This article discussed possible factors that influences the above four types of mental models, including subject characteristics, search results and questions. (Article content in Chinese with English abstract) https://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/files/journal/j15-2.pdfinformation seekinginformation retrievalmental model
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Journal of Library and Information Studies
information seeking
information retrieval
mental model
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title Factors Affecting Mental Models in CD-ROM Searching: A Preliminary Investigation
title_short Factors Affecting Mental Models in CD-ROM Searching: A Preliminary Investigation
title_full Factors Affecting Mental Models in CD-ROM Searching: A Preliminary Investigation
title_fullStr Factors Affecting Mental Models in CD-ROM Searching: A Preliminary Investigation
title_full_unstemmed Factors Affecting Mental Models in CD-ROM Searching: A Preliminary Investigation
title_sort factors affecting mental models in cd-rom searching: a preliminary investigation
publisher National Taiwan University
series Journal of Library and Information Studies
issn 1606-7509
1606-7509
publishDate 2000-12-01
description This article attempts to investigate possible factors affecting mental models in CD-ROM searching. The subjects were college and graduate students of National Taiwan University. They used PsyLIT CD-ROM database to search their own questions. After instructions, 52 subjects did 58 searchers. According to search terms selections, four types of mental models were identified. This article discussed possible factors that influences the above four types of mental models, including subject characteristics, search results and questions. (Article content in Chinese with English abstract)
topic information seeking
information retrieval
mental model
url https://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/files/journal/j15-2.pdf
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