How people revisit web pages: Empirical findings and implications for the design of history systems

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 97-137

  Tauscher, Linda ^a   Greenberg, Saul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

UNIVERSAL RESOURCE LOCATOR (URL); WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW);

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0031187547     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1997.0125     Document Type: Article

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