“…Although no consensus on what constitutes a context has been reached, researchers have generally agreed that the elements of context include cognitive, affective, social, linguistic, technical, organizational, or cultural factors related to a person and his/her tasks and goals [6,16,18]. In this study, we explore the context of consumer health information searching in terms of the following contextual elements: basic linguistic features of askers' expressions of their health information needs, their cognitive, social, and emotional motivations for asking questions on a Q&A site, time when the questions were asked, and askers' cognitive structure of their problem spaces.…”