An empirical evaluation of user interfaces for topic management of web sites

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 552-559

  Amento, Brian ^a,b   Hill, Will ^a   Terveen, Loren ^a   Hix, Deborah ^b   Ju, Peter ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer supported cooperative work; Human computer interaction; Information access; Information retrieval; Information visualization; Social filtering

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPERT JUDGEMENT; HIGH-QUALITY SITES; INFORMATION ACCESS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; PROFILE DATA; SOCIAL FILTERING; USER PERFORMANCE; WEB TOOLS; WEBCRAWLER;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WEBSITES; DATA STRUCTURES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; WEB BROWSERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

USER INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE TOPICSHOP;

EID: 0032643859     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/302979.303156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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