English
Related papers

Related papers: Health Information Search Behavior on the Web: A P…

200 papers

Social media has been considered as a data source for tracking disease. However, most analyses are based on models that prioritize strong correlation with population-level disease rates over determining whether or not specific individual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Todd Bodnar , Victoria C Barclay , Nilam Ram , Conrad S Tucker , Marcel Salathé

The information ecosystem today is overwhelmed by an unprecedented quantity of data on versatile topics are with varied quality. However, the quality of information disseminated in the field of medicine has been questioned as the negative…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Fariha Afsana , Muhammad Ashad Kabir , Naeemul Hassan , Manoranjan Paul

What are the intents or goals behind human interactions with image search engines? Knowing why people search for images is of major concern to Web image search engines because user satisfaction may vary as intent varies. Previous analyses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Xiaohui Xie , Yiqun Liu , Maarten de Rijke , Jiyin He , Min Zhang , Shaoping Ma

Online searches have been used to study different health-related behaviours, including monitoring disease outbreaks. An obvious caveat is that several reasons can motivate individuals to seek online information and models that are blind to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Sara Mesquita , Cláudio Haupt Vieira , Lília Perfeito , Joana Gonçalves-Sá

Search engines are the preferred tools for finding information on the Web. They are advancing to be the common helpers to answer any of our search needs. We use them to carry out simple look-up tasks and also to work on rather time…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-06-13 Georg Singer , Ulrich Norbisrath , Dirk Lewandowski

In this paper we review studies of the growth of the Internet and technologies that are useful for information search and retrieval on the Web. Search engines are retrieve the efficient information. We collected data on the Internet from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-10-18 Avinash N Bhute , B. B. Meshram

Search engines, such as Google, have a considerable impact on society. Therefore, undesirable consequences, such as retrieving incorrect search results, pose a risk to users. Although previous research has reported the adverse outcomes of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Helena Häußler , Sebastian Schultheiß , Dirk Lewandowski

Cybersecurity is a very challenging topic of research nowadays, as digitalization increases the interaction of people, software and services on the Internet by means of technology devices and networks connected to it. The field is broad and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Nuno Oliveira , Norberto Sousa , Isabel Praça

Users rely on search engines for information in critical contexts, such as public health emergencies. Understanding how users evaluate the trustworthiness of search results is therefore essential. Research has identified rank and the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Sterling Williams-Ceci , Michael Macy , Mor Naaman

Internet hospital is a rising business thanks to recent advances in mobile web technology and high demand of health care services. Online medical services become increasingly popular and active. According to US data in 2018, 80 percent of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Xiang Li , Xinyu Fu , Zheng Lu , Ruibin Bai , Uwe Aickelin , Peiming Ge , Gong Liu

Easier access to the internet and social media has made disseminating information through online sources very easy. Sources like Facebook, Twitter, online news sites and personal blogs of self-proclaimed journalists have become significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Shaily Bhatt , Sakshi Kalra , Naman Goenka , Yashvardhan Sharma

Artificial intelligence has provided us with an exploration of a whole new research era. As more data and better computational power become available, the approach is being implemented in various fields. The demand for it in health…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Gloria Hyunjung Kwak , Pan Hui

Search engines could consistently favor certain values over the others, which is considered as biased due to the built-in infrastructures. Many studies have been dedicated to detect, control, and mitigate the impacts of the biases from the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Bin Han , Chirag Shah , Daniel Saelid

The problem of how people find information is studied extensively; however, the problem of how people organize, re-use, and re-find information that they have found is not as well understood. Recently, several projects have conducted…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Robert G. Capra , Manuel A. Perez-Quinones

More and more people use the Internet to work on duties of their daily work routine. To find the right information online, Web search engines are the tools of their choice. Apart from finding facts, people use Web search engines to also…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-09-17 Georg Singer , Ulrich Norbisrath , Dirk Lewandowski

There is an increasing number of virtual communities and forums available on the web. With social media, people can freely communicate and share their thoughts, ask personal questions, and seek peer-support, especially those with conditions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Nur Shazwani Kamarudin , Ghazaleh Beigi , Lydia Manikonda , Huan Liu

The unprecedented growth of Internet users has resulted in an abundance of unstructured information on social media including health forums, where patients request health-related information or opinions from other users. Previous studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Shweta Yadav , Joy Prakash Sain , Amit Sheth , Asif Ekbal , Sriparna Saha , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

People are concerned about privacy, particularly on the Internet. While many studies have provided evidence of this concern, few have explored the nature of the concern in detail, especially for the online environment. With this study, we…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Lorrie Faith Cranor , Joseph Reagle , Mark S. Ackerman

With the increasing popularity of social means to satisfy information needs using Social Media (e.g., Social Media Question Asking, SMQA) or Social Information Retrieval approaches, this paper tries to identify types of information needs…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Christoph Fuchs , Akash Nayyar , Ruth Nussbaumer , Georg Groh

Internet and electronic media gaining more popularity due to ease and speed, the count of Internet users has increased tremendously. The world is moving faster each day with several events taking place at once and the Internet is flooded…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Vikram Santhalia , Sanjay Singh