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This study investigated users’ searching, reading and writing interactions and their activity transitions during task completion process when users were collecting information for learning-related search tasks. Task completion process was defined as the ...

Due to the particularity of “Tourist chartered Buses, Liner Buses and Dangerous Goods Transport Vehicles” (“TLD Vehicles”), traffic accidents will bring serious losses. Therefore, traffic flow prediction for “TLD Vehicles” has become an urgent ...

• This study focused on Chinese college students’ source selection and use behaviors when searching for health information online, and particularly we distinguished the selection and use behaviors.
• It is found that students’ health-...

This lab-based experimental study examined college students’ source selection and use behaviors when searching for health-related information using a major Chinese search engine, Baidu.com. Participants searched for four health-related tasks, ...

This study aims to identify users' information search strategies in learning‐related tasks and investigates how the search strategies would influence their learning outcome. We conducted a lab‐based user experiment with 36 participants, recorded ...

This study explored user interactions when accomplishing learning related tasks from a new perspective, the process perspective, and examined three main types of user interactions: searching, reading and writing behaviors. The goal is to ...

Learning-related type of tasks has attracted much research attention recently but it is still not clear what factors would influence users learning outcomes and how. In this study, we conducted a user experiment to assess searchers learning outcomes and ...

This study examined users' self‐rated search ability with their objective search performance, their subjective assessed search performance, and the accuracy of subjective assessments. Thirty students were recruited for the lab mode online search ...

This study examined users' self-rated search ability with their objective search performance, their subjective assessed search performance, and the accuracy of subjective assessments. Thirty students were recruited for the lab mode online search ...

Considering that the flexibility and real-time of existing water environment warning system can not satisfy the increasingly severe water environment security situation and endless water pollution events, this paper put forward a dynamic early warning ...