Age related differences and the depth vs. breadth tradeoff in hierarchical online information systems

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2615, Issue , 2003, Pages 23-42

  Zaphiris, Panayiotis ^a   Kurniawan, Sri Hastuti ^b   Ellis, R Darin ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIT ERROR RATE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONLINE SEARCHING; WEB BROWSERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

AGE RELATED DIFFERENCES; BREADTH TRADEOFF; ONLINE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; AGE GROUPS; AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES; DIFFERENT TREATMENTS; EXPANDABLE STRUCTURES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; USER INTERFACES;

EID: 31044441946     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36572-9_2     Document Type: Article

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