Children's web portals: Novel designs

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering , IKE'04

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 399-405

  Beheshti, Jamshid ^a   Large, Andrew ^a   Nesset, Valerie ^a   Bowler, Leanne ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; VISUALIZATION; WEB BROWSERS;

BOOLEAN-BASED SYSTEM; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERFACE DESIGNS; METAPHORS;

PORTALS;

EID: 12344266081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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