Perceptions and importance of user friendliness of IR systems according to users' individual characteristics and academic discipline

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1995-2007

  Vilar, Polona ^a   Žumer, Maja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; USER INTERFACES;

AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS; DATA COLLECTIONS; E-JOURNALS; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; IR SYSTEMS; LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS; RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; USER EDUCATION; USER FRIENDLINESS; USER STUDIES; USERS' PERCEPTIONS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 53849087186     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20864     Document Type: Article

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