This implies that FD user does not feel comfortable with using tools for jumping around different nodes and navigates the Web in a more linear mode. It is interesting to see that FD subject used as many URLs as used by FI whereas FM subjects used less number of URLs. This result is not consistent with the tendency found in specific information search task. Several other data show that the FD subject lacked the knowledge of how to search information on the Web. Search tools used by groups with different cognitive styles Cog.
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The PFs used URLs, search engines, and Go buttons more frequently. The EFs used Back buttons more frequently than the PFs. All of these imply that the PFs tend to feel comfortable with jumping among different nodes and actively approach to the problem rather than passively browsing around the problem whereas the EFs adopt strategies opposite to those used by the PFs. P-S. Style Link Back URL S.eng. By tracing all the websites that the subjects visited during the search session, the navigation patterns were examined.