Impacts of decision task, data and display on strategies for extracting information

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-180

  Kennedy, Miles ^a   Te'eni, Dov ^b   Treleaven, James B ^c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Moore Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

GRAPHICAL PROTOCOL ANALYSIS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; STRATEGY FORMULATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0032002036     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1997.0166     Document Type: Article

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