A field study of database communication issues peculiar to users of a voice activated medical tracking application

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 168-180

  Rodger, James A ^a   Pendharkar, Parag C ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Database; Decision Support System; Field study; Human computer interaction; Voice activation

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE; FIELD STUDY; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; VOICE ACTIVATION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846066366     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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