Are expert users always better searchers? Interaction of expertise and semantic grouping in hypertext search tasks

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 471-475

  Salmeron L ^a   Canas J J ^a   Fajardo, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SEMANTICS;

CONSTRAINT ATTUNEMENT HYPOTHESIS (CAH); SYSTEM INTERFACE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 29144530155     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0144329042000320018     Document Type: Article

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