... with intellectual disability User studies Web search accessibility Health information seeking Human-computer interaction Many studies have shown that people with intellectual disability know how to use digital tools in learning or entertainment contexts; however, little is known about how people...

... work/learning/life performance. Perceived usefulness is considered to be one of the key factors influencing intentions to use a blog: H1. Perceived usefulness has a positive impact on intended use of a blog. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Blogs User studies...

..., query formulation and construction of controlled vocabularies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Digital libraries Museums User studies Information management Social tags Information organization User behaviour CiteULike Social networking websites such as Flickr...

... that show academics in the medical/health disciplines read more papers compared to the other disciplines (Tenopir et al., 2009a). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Information media Social media Reading Information retrieval User studies Our study focuses on two...

... game. The authors also seek to investigate the impact of games on these motivations. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a user study where 28 participants used Indagator for a week to create and share content (annotations). Participants were interviewed. All interview responses...

... understanding of the GSM service. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Search engines User studies Periodicals Open systems Public domain software This paper reviews the software and content features of the Google Scholar Metrics (GSM) service launched in April 2012. The traditional...

... deem the contributed knowledge useful and credible and are willing to adopt the knowledge (Levin and Cross, 2004). Virtual communities Knowledge adoption Social capital Technology acceptance model Posters Lurkers Social networks User studies © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012...

... engine and in Google Books). User studies Search engines Periodicals Information retrieval © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Importantly Pudovkin and Garfield (2012) also reacted to the paper (Vanclay, 2012) that Bensman (2011, p. 93) appropriately described not just...

.... This study thus investigates the problem of account theft. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Online game Gaming misbehaviour Anger Continuance intention Profanity Indoor games Internet User studies A form of online entertainment, online games generate strong revenues (DFC...

... and Thomson, 2007) for the same purpose. This study evaluates the performance of four generalist search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Sapo) and three health‐specific search engines (MedlinePlus, WebMD and SapoSaúde). The evaluation is based on the data collected in a user study with undergraduate...

... --> Library users User studies Information studies This is an ambitious work despite its brevity, laying out an agenda for investigating the evolution of information seeking from early hominids to the present day. Amanda Spink has solid credentials for this task, having contributed substantially to our...

... by an explosion of information. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Information management Information retrieval Indexing Internet User studies General search engines such as Google have access to data that describes pages in terms of page content, link structure, query log data...

... Series © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Information society User studies Searching In this book the Google Generation is defined by being born at a time when not only ICTs were prevalent, which was true to some degree for the pre‐Google era, but also when a diverse range...

... Limited 2010 Electronic journals User studies Open systems The open access SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) database offers essential scientometric information for more than 17,000 scholarly and professional journals based on data licensed from Elsevier's Scopus database...

... United States of America Social networks Korea User studies Cross‐cultural studies Behaviour A social network service (SNS) focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. SNSs...

... on podcast metadata and automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts. Design/methodology/approach The paper conducted a user study to obtain an overview of podcast search behaviour and goals, using a multi‐method approach of an online survey, a diary study, and contextual interviews. In a subsequent...

..., users should be informed of the progress of the download process (Nielsen, 1993). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Electronic commerce Turkey Internet User studies Youth E‐commerce can be described as the purchase and sale of products and/or services through electronic...

... Demographics User studies … I see considerable untapped potential for community networking initiatives – whether already up‐and‐running or yet to be started – to benefit from the full participation of the local library … My message is aimed squarely at librarians: community networking needs you...

... Publishing Limited 2009 --> Library users User studies Worldwide web The web is a major information source and communication channel. One of the major goals of web research is trying to understand what users are doing on the web. Web log analysis can help us to achieve this goal...

... are on the line. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Worldwide Web Privacy User studies Design Digital identity management has seen a marketplace revolution. The tasks of authentication and attribute lookup were once performed exclusively for the purpose of securing and authorising...