Can information foraging pick the fix? a field study

Proceedings - 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 57-64

  Lawrance, Joseph ^a,b   Bellamy, Rachel ^b   Burnett, Margaret ^a   Rector, Kyle ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUG REPORTS; FEATURE REQUESTS; FIELD STUDIES; INFORMATION FORAGING; INFORMATION SCENTS; NAVIGATION TOOLS; OPEN SOURCES; SOURCE CODES;

LINGUISTICS;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 56349091033     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2008.4639059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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