An Individual's Problem Space and Web Information Searching: A Proposed Study on Mental Organization of Keyword Importance and Efficiency in Everyday Web Information Searching

Abstract

An individual's problem space has been identified as important in problem solving. A problem space is a person's inner representation of the task after extracting critical components in the external problem task. This paper proposes a study to probe whether there are different problem spaces for efficient and inefficient Web information searchers. The questions will be answered quantitatively using the psychometric scaling method TRICIR (for circular triads) and ANOVA.