Other studies (Marchioni & Shneiderman 88)
Compared two groups of novices (high school)
- Scan and select strategy, or
- Analytic strategy (using Boolean connectors and planning search in advance)
- Effectiveness was pretty much even, but analytical searchers were slightly faster
Navigation and Disorientation
- After finishing with an article, many subjects moved all the way to the top of the menu hierarchy to the query formulation screen rather than moving up just one level.