Hypertext versus Boolean Access to Biomedical Information

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 156-183

  Wildemuth, Barbara M ^a   Friedman, Charles P ^b   Downs, Stephen M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain knowledge; Human Factors; intellectual access; medical education; Performance; problem solving; usage effectiveness; usage efficiency; user preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000496376     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/287675.287677     Document Type: Article

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