A psychological investigation of long retrieval times on the World Wide Web

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-86

  Ramsay, Judith ^a   Barbesi, Alessandro ^b   Preece, Jenny ^c  

^a NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

^b Dept of Information Engineering   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Response time; Subjective satisfaction; Usability; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); USER INTERFACES; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

PAGE LOADING PROCESS; SUBJECTIVE SATISFACTION; WEB PAGES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0032026632     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-5438(97)00019-2     Document Type: Article

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