ScentTrails: Integrating browsing and searching on the Web

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 177-197

  Olston, Christopher ^a,c   Chi, Ed H ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Browsing; Information scent; ScentTrails; Searching; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; INFORMATION SCENT; SCENT TRAILS; SEARCHING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); ONLINE SEARCHING; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEB BROWSERS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 3042854920     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/937549.937550     Document Type: Article

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