Investigation and Application of Cognitive Processes of Information Seeking on the Web

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce our cognitive approach about the information seeking on the Web. First, we investigated how people find information into web space by using protocol analysis. Second, we applied experimental findings of our study to constructing learning environments that help students to acquire information search skills. Finally, we try to apply our cognitive studies to create a computational model of information seeking on the Web and developing evaluation indicators for information retrieval experiments.