Cognitive ability and information retrieval: When less is more

Virtual Reality

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-7

  Westerman, S J ^a   Cribbin, T ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Information retrieval; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005584344     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01418971     Document Type: Article

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