Carla Teixeira Lopes|Edgar Ramos
Studying How Health Literacy Influences Attention during Online Information Seeking
Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto|Universidade do Porto|Universidade do Porto
health literacy affects people understand health information therefore considered search engines health searches work analyze level health literacy related eye movements users searching web health information performed user study 30 participants asked search online context three work task situations defined authors eye interactions search results page result pages logged using eyetracker later analyzed searching online health information people adequate health literacy spend time fixations search result pages type page also pay attention results hyperlink snippet click results result pages adequate health literacy users spend time analyzing textual content people lower health literacy found statistical differences terms clicks fixations time spent could used starting point research know first work use eyetracker explore users different health literacy search online healthrelated information traditional instruments intrusive used search engines automatic prediction health literacy would useful type system