Improving user performance on boolean queries

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 269-270

  Pane, John F ^a   Myers, Brad A ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

End user programming; Information retrieval; Psychology of programming; User studies

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN EXPRESSIONS; BOOLEAN OPERATORS; BOOLEAN QUERIES; END USER PROGRAMMING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PSYCHOLOGY OF PROGRAMMING; QUERY FORMULATION; TABULAR NOTATION; USER PERFORMANCE; USER STUDY; WEB QUERY TOOL;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES;

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA;

EID: 0038206523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/633292.633449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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