Three important determinants of user performance for database retrieval

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 895-918

  Chan, Hock C ^a   Tan, Bernard C Y ^a   Wei, Kwok Kee ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

DATABASE RETRIEVAL; EXPRESSIVE EASE; REPRESENTATION REALISM; TASK COMPLEXITY;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033312742     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1999.0272     Document Type: Article

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