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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Information quality and cognitive authority in the World Wide Web Abstract: When searching for "useful" information, people often base their actions on the concepts of quality and authority. In traditional information environments, there are well-established mechanisms for indicating or controlling for these factors. However, the World Wide Web lacks such mechanisms, making the problem of identifying "good" and "useful" information especially difficult. The purpose of this study is to identify and understand the various factors which influence people's judgments of quality and authority of information on the Web, and the effects of those judgments on selecting behaviors. The eventual goal toward which this study is aimed is to design Web systems which will effectively support people's judgments of quality and authority when searching for information. This study examines these issues by observing people's information searching behavior in the Web with regard to their judgments of information quality and cognitive authority. |
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Students under Soo Young Rieh
ADVISEES:
- Yong-Mi Kim - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2011)
- Beth Lenore St Jean - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2012)
COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Jahna Clare Otterbacher - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2006)
- Derek L. Hansen - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2007)
- Ji-Hyun Kim - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2008)
- Emilee Jeanne Rader - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2009)
- Sambhavi Chandrashekar - University of Toronto (2010)