Soo Young Rieh

Social Search Behavior in a Social Q&A Service: Goals, Strategies, and Outcomes

2015 · Deep Blue (University of Michigan)

information seekers to reach out to a larger, more distributed group of people online when searching for information. In this study, people’s question-asking behavior using a social Q&A service is conceptualized as social search behavior. …

Assessing learning outcomes in web searching: A comparison of tasks and query strategies

2016 · Deep Blue (University of Michigan)

Users make frequent use of Web search for learning-related tasks, but little is known about how different Web search interaction strategies affect outcomes for learning-oriented tasks, or what implicit or explicit indicators could reliably be …

Enhancing Critical Thinking in Generative AI Search with Metacognitive Prompts

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

The growing use of Generative AI (GenAI) conversational search tools has raised concerns about their effects on people's metacognitive engagement, critical thinking, and learning. As people increasingly rely on GenAI to perform tasks such as …