Effect of grading schemes on outcomes in query writing experiments

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-12

  Chan, Hock Chuan ^a   Wei, Kwok Kee ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Grading schemes; Human computer interaction; Query languages

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; QUERY LANGUAGES; USER INTERFACES;

GRADING SCHEMES; HYPOTHESIS REJECTION; QUERY ACCURACY; QUERY WRITING EXPERIMENTS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0030103616     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0953-5438(95)01021-1     Document Type: Article

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