User's mental model of an information retrieval system: An experiment on a prototype online catalog

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 435-452

  Borgman, Christine L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OCLC Online Computer Library Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; USER INTERFACES;

MENTAL MODELS; ONLINE CATALOGS;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032646622     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1985.0318     Document Type: Article

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