Interpreting information requests in context a collaborative web interface for distance learning

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 429-465

  Ortiz Jr , Charles L ^a   Grosz, Barbara J ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Human computer interaction

Indexed keywords

WEB INTERFACES;

CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES; DISTANCE EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 0036057874     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019608411687     Document Type: Review

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