Harder to access, better performance? The effects of information access cost on strategy and performance

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4557 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 115-125

  Morgan, Phillip L ^a   Waldron, Samuel M ^a   King, Sophia L ^a   Patrick, John ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information Access Cost (IAC); Interface design; Learning; Memory; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; INFORMATION ACCESS COST (IAC); INTERFACE DESIGN;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 38149136448     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73345-4_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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