Improved search engines and navigation preference in personal information management

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Bergman, Ofer ^a   Beyth Marom, Ruth ^b   Nachmias, Rafi ^c   Gradovitch, Noa ^c   Whittaker, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Files retrieval; Navigation preference; Personal information management; Personal search engines; Search preference; User study

Indexed keywords

FILES RETRIEVAL; NAVIGATION PREFERENCE; PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PERSONAL SEARCH ENGINES; SEARCH PREFERENCE; USER STUDY;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FILE ORGANIZATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMODULATION; INTERMODULATION MEASUREMENT; INTERNET; MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SEARCH ENGINES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WINDOWS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 53849104327     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1402256.1402259     Document Type: Article

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