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  • Modeling users’ web search behavior and their cognitive styles

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    Author(s)
    Kinley, Khamsum
    Tjondronegoro, Dian
    Partridge, Helen
    Edwards, Sylvia
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Kinley, Khamsum
    Tjondronegoro, Dian W.
    Year published
    2014
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    Previous studies have shown that users' cognitive styles play an important role during web searching. However, only a limited number of studies have showed the relationship between cognitive styles and web search behavior. Most importantly, it is not clear which components of web search behavior are influenced by cognitive styles. This article examines the relationships between users' cognitive styles and their web searching and develops a model that portrays the relationship. The study uses qualitative and quantitative analyses based on data gathered from 50 participants. A questionnaire was utilized to collect participants' ...
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    Previous studies have shown that users' cognitive styles play an important role during web searching. However, only a limited number of studies have showed the relationship between cognitive styles and web search behavior. Most importantly, it is not clear which components of web search behavior are influenced by cognitive styles. This article examines the relationships between users' cognitive styles and their web searching and develops a model that portrays the relationship. The study uses qualitative and quantitative analyses based on data gathered from 50 participants. A questionnaire was utilized to collect participants' demographic information, and Riding's (1991) Cognitive Styles Analysis (CSA) test to assess their cognitive styles. Results show that users' cognitive styles influenced their information-searching strategies, query reformulation behavior, web navigational styles, and information-processing approaches. The user model developed in this study depicts the fundamental relationships between users' web search behavior and their cognitive styles. Modeling web search behavior with a greater understanding of users' cognitive styles can help information science researchers and information systems designers to bridge the semantic gap between the user and the systems. Implications of the research for theory and practice, and future work, are discussed.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
    Volume
    65
    Issue
    6
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23053
    Copyright Statement
    © 2014 ASIS&T. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Modeling users’ web search behavior and their cognitive styles, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 65, Issue 6, June 2014, Pages 1107–1123, which has been published in final form at dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.23053. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
    Subject
    Human information behaviour
    Information retrieval and web search
    Informetrics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/62985
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