The effectiveness of the electronic city metaphor for organizing the menus of free-nets

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 919-931

  Toms, Elaine G ^a   Kinnucan, Mark T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

ELECTRONIC CITY METAPHOR; FREE NETS MENUS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0030378124     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199612)47:12<919::AID-ASI5>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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