Yan Zhang

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Journal Papers (Peer-reviewed)

Zhang, Y. (In Press). College students' uses and perceptions of social networking sites for health and wellness information. Information Research. [PDF]

Zhang, Y. (2012). The impact of task complexity on people's mental models of MedlinePlus. Information Processing and Management, 48(1), 107-119. [PDF]

Zhang, Y. (2010). Dimensions and elements of people's mental model of an information-rich web space. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(11), 2206-2218. [PDF]

Zhang, Y. (2008). Undergraduate students' mental models of the Web as an information retrieval system. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(13), 2087-2098. [PDF]

Zhang, Y. (2008). The influence of mental models on undergraduate students' searching behavior on the Web. Information Processing and Management 44(3): 1330-1345. [PDF]

Tenpoir, C., Wang, P., Zhang, Y., Simmons, B., & Pollard, R. (2008) Academic users' interactions with ScienceDirect in search tasks: Affective and cognitive behaviors. Information Processing and Management, 44(1): 105-121.

Tenopir, C., King, D., Grayson, M., Zhang, Y., & Ebuen, M. (2003). Patterns of journal use by scientists through three evolutionary phases. D-Lib Magazine, 9(5).

Book Chapters

Zhang, Y. , & Wildemuth, B. M. (2009). Qualitative analysis of content. In B. Wildemuth (Ed.), Applications of Social Research Methods to Questions in Information and Library Science (pp.308-319). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. PDF

Zhang, Y. , & Wildemuth, B. M. (2009). Unstructured interviews. In B. Wildemuth (Ed.), Applications of Social Research Methods to Questions in Information and Library Science (pp.222-231). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. PDF

Conference Papers (Peer-reviewed)

Zhang, Y., Wang, P., Heaton, A., & Winkler, H. (2012). Health information searching behavior in MedlinePlus and the impact of tasks. In the Proceedings of the ACM International Health Informatics (IHI) Symposium 2012,Miami, FL, 641-650. (Acceptance rate: 18%) PDF

Zhang, Y., & Fu, W.T. (2011). Designing consumer health information systems: What do user-generated questions tell us? HCI International 2011 - Thematic Area: Augmented Cognition. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6780, pp.536-545. PDF

Zhang, Y. (2010). Contextualizing consumer health information searching: an analysis of questions in a social Q&A community. In the Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium, Arlington, VA, 210-219. (Acceptance rate: 17%) PDF

Kelly, D., Shah, C., Sugimoto, C. R., Bailey, E. W., Clemens, R. A., Irvine, A. K., Johnson, N. A., Ke, W., Oh, S., Poljakova, A., Rodriguez, M. A., van Noord, M. G., & Zhang, Y. (2008). Effects of performance feedback on users' evaluations of an interactive IR system. Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Information Interaction in Context (IIiX), London, UK, 75-82.

Wang, P., Dervos, D. A., Zhang, Y., & Wu, L. (2007). Information-seeking and communication behaviors of academic researchers in the Internet Age: A cross-cultural study. ASIST 2007 (SIG USE Best Research Paper Runnerup). PDF

Capra, R., Marchionini, G., Oh, J. S., Stutzman, F., Zhang, Y. (2007). Effects of structure and interaction style on distinct search tasks. Proceedings of ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 442-451). (Acceptance rate: 28%) PDF

Tenopir, C., Wang, P., Pollard, R., Zhang, Y., & Simmons, B. (2004). Use of electronic science journals in the undergraduate curriculum: An observational study. Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the ASIS&T (pp. 64-71). Medford, NJ: Information Today. PDF

Wang, P., Bales, S., Reiger, J., & Zhang, Y. (2004). Survey of learners' knowledge structures: Rationales, methods and instruments. Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the ASIS&T (pp. 218-228). Medford, NJ: Information Today. PDF

Posters (Peer-reviewed)

Zhang, Y. (2011). A review of search interfaces in consumer health websites. Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval 2011. Mountain View, CA. PDF (Presented as a poster).

Zhang, Y. (2011). Exploring a web space for consumer health information: Implications for design. Proceedings of the 2011 iConference (pp.811-812). February 8-11, 2011, Seattle, WA, 811-812. PDF

Zhang, Y. (2011). Effects of tasks on users’ perceptions of the content of a web-based IR system. Proceedings of the 2011 iConference (pp.813-814). February 8-11, 2011, Seattle, WA, 813-814. PDF

Zhang, Y., Fan, X., & Mostafa, J. (2009). Evaluating automatic medical concepts association with human judgments. The Fourth Annual iSchools Conference: iSociety: Research, Education, Engagement. Chapel Hill, NC, February, 2009. PDF

Zhang, Y. (2009). Mediating effects of mental models on search performance and experience in the web environment. ALISE 2009. Denver, CO, January.

Zhang, Y. (2008). Visiting human errors in interacting with IR systems from decision making perspective. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Columbus, OH, October. PDF

Lillie, S. E., Brewer, N. T., Zhang, Y., & Sheridan, S. L. (2007). Tables or bar charts? Optimizing personal electronic health records. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 33, S119. (Presented at the 2007 Annual Conference of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, DC.)

Wildemuth, B. M., Blake, C. L., Spurgin, K., & Oh, S. Zhang, Y. (2006) Patients' perspectives on personal health records: An assessment of needs and concerns. Critical Issues in eHealth Research 2006. (PDF and poster)

Zhang, Y., & Wang, P. (2005). Measuring mental models: Rational and instruments. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 42 (1). PDF

Dissertation

Zhang, Y. (2010). The construction of mental models of information-rich web spaces: The development process and the impact of task complexity. (dissertation abstract). SIGIR Forum, 44(1), 89.

Zhang, Y. (2009). The construction of mental models of information-rich web spaces: The development process and the impact of task complexity. PhD. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. PDF

Last updated: 9/10/2011