How visual query tools can support users searching the Internet

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualization

Volumn 8, Issue , 2004, Pages 329-334

  Spoerri, Anselm ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; COLOR; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEARCH ENGINES;

COORDINATION PROCESS; INTERNET QUERIES; QUERY FORMULATIONS; VISUAL QUERY TOOLS;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 4644279802     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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