This article reviews studies, conducted between 1995 and 2000, on Web search behavior.
These studies reported on children as well as on adults. Most of the studies on children …

Since the beginning of the computer age, researchers from many disciplines have sought to
facilitate people's use of computers and to provide ways for scientists to make sense of the …

A Web query consists of one or more search terms. Queries are an integral component of
Web searching and the expression of a searcher's information problem to the Web search …

Usability tests have shown that users often get lost very easily on the Internet when looking
for information. However, we still know very little about why this is so and how it can be …

“Gradually I began to feel that we were growing something almost organic in a new kind of
reality, in cyberspace, growing it out of information… a pulsing tree of data that I loved to …

This study examines how students enrolled in two Web-based sections of a technical writing
class performed compared to students enrolled in a conventional version of the class …

This paper describes a series of studies involving a haptic device which can display virtual
textures and 3-D objects. The device has potential for simulating real world objects and …

We have implemented a browser companion called PadPrints that dynamically builds a
graphical history-map of visited web pages. PadPrints relies on Pad++, a zooming user …

The World Wide Web (WWW) is becoming increasingly important for business, education,
and entertainment. Popular web browsers make access to Internet information resources …

The conventions of drama present the planned as spontaneous, stimulating the imagination
of greater interaction potential than there is. This paper argues for a distinction between …