Supporting elementary-age children's searching and browsing: Design and evaluation using the international children's digital library

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1618-1630

  Hutchinson, Hilary Browne ^a,b   Druin, Allison ^a   Bederson, Benjamin B ^a  

^a University of Maryland ^*

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; QUERY LANGUAGES; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES; WEB BROWSERS;

BOOLEAN QUERIES; CASUAL BROWSING; SEQUENTIAL NAVIGATION; USABILITY PROBLEMS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 34548589249     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20646     Document Type: Article

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