A flexible interface design for web directories to accommodate different cognitive styles

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 70-83

  Chen, Sherry Y ^a   Magoulas, George D ^b   Dimakopoulos, Dionisios ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LIBRARIES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COGNITIVE STYLES; ELECTRONIC JOURNALS; INFORMATION RESOURCES; WEB DIRECTORIES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 11144263651     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20103     Document Type: Article

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