Testing user interaction with a prototype visualization-based information retrieval system

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 824-833

  Koshman, Sherry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE MODELING; INTERFACE DESIGN; VISUAL INFORMATION BROWSING ENVIRONMENT (VIBE) SYSTEM; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); OBJECT RECOGNITION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VISUALIZATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 20444450137     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20175     Document Type: Article

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