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Towards a metacognitive approach to credibility

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Conference on Information and Knowledge Management archive
Proceeding of the 2nd ACM workshop on Information credibility on the web table of contents

Napa Valley, California, USA

SESSION: Information quality frameworks and theories table of contents

Pages 75-80

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-259-7

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Marie Iding	University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
Brent Auernheimer	California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA, USA
Martha E. Crosby	University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA

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SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

We describe research investigating users' determinations of web site credibility in several contexts, including Hawaii, Norway, and Singapore. Recommendations include incorporating the use of metacognitive prompts for facilitating effective credibility determinations.

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