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Examining perception of digital information space

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A study using a modified think aloud protocol of University of Rochester undergraduate students' interactions with a general, humanities scholarly database helped a research team gain insight into their information-seeking behavior and thus the impact of the digital library.

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Examining perception of digital information space
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Collaborative and social computing systems and tools
      1. Synchronous editors

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JCDL '07: Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

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DOI:10.1145/1255175

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Edie Rasmussen
University of British Columbia, Canada
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University of California, Berkeley
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Elaine Toms
Dalhousie University, Canada
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Shigeo Sugimoto
University of Tsukuba, Japan

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