A comparison of usability techniques for evaluating information retrieval system interfaces

Performance Measurement and Metrics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-58

  Amed, S M Zabed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 41249097557     PISSN: 14678047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14678040810869422     Document Type: Article

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