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information scent: a standalone construct

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Information science

the cues such as link text and snippets that users read to judge how likely a path is to lead to the information they want.

In information science, information scent refers to the cues such as link text and snippets that users read to judge how likely a path is to lead to the information they want. This meaning comes from Chi (2001) in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.[1]

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References

Chi, E. H., Pirolli, P., Chen, K., & Pitkow, J. (2001). Using information scent to model user information needs and actions and the Web. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/365024.365325

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