TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the distribution of online healthcare information
AU - Bhavnani, Suresh K.
AU - Jacob, Renju T.
AU - Nardine, Jennifer
AU - Peck, Frederick A.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Motivated by the importance of retrieving comprehensive healthcare information, we analyzed how information about 12 concepts related to a widely available healthcare topic is distributed across 145 high-quality webpages. The analysis reveals that the distribution of the concepts follows a power law where a few pages contain many concepts, while the majority contains less than half the concepts. The analysis also reveals the existence of general, specialized, and sparse pages, in addition to the large number of pages that users must visit before they have access to all the concepts. These results provide insights into expert search procedures, and motivate the design of future search systems that guide users in the retrieval of comprehensive information.
AB - Motivated by the importance of retrieving comprehensive healthcare information, we analyzed how information about 12 concepts related to a widely available healthcare topic is distributed across 145 high-quality webpages. The analysis reveals that the distribution of the concepts follows a power law where a few pages contain many concepts, while the majority contains less than half the concepts. The analysis also reveals the existence of general, specialized, and sparse pages, in addition to the large number of pages that users must visit before they have access to all the concepts. These results provide insights into expert search procedures, and motivate the design of future search systems that guide users in the retrieval of comprehensive information.
KW - Distribution of information
KW - Healthcare
KW - Web searching
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=23044483736&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/765891.766009
DO - 10.1145/765891.766009
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:23044483736
SN - 1581136374
SN - 9781581136371
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 816
EP - 817
BT - CHI'03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA'03
T2 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2003
Y2 - 5 April 2003 through 10 April 2003
ER -
