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CECCR - Web Scatter

PI: Suresh K. Bhavnani, PhD
affiliation: University of Michigan, School of Information
topic: health information access, website data collection, web search
medium: Internet
audience: Researchers
grant: Understanding information scatter on the Internet
sponsor: CECCR Developmental Project
dates: 2005-02-01 - 2005-08-31

CECCR - Web Scatter
Many users find it difficult to find comprehensive health information because the information, even for narrowly well-defined topics, is highly scattered across websites with no page or site containing all the relevant information. This study enables us to: (1) deepen our understanding of why users find it difficult to find comprehensive information about healthcare topics, and (2) provide explicit guidelines for how pages in healthcare websites should be linked to enable users to easily navigate through the site, with the ultimate goal of facilitating the process of finding comprehensive information.