Multiple search sessions model of end-user behavior: An exploratory study

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 603-609

  Spink, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD-ROM; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

END USER TRAINING; END USERS; MULTIPLE SEARCH SESSION; ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOGS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0030214403     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199608)47:8<603::AID-ASI4>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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