Information seeking can be social

Computer

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 42-46

  Chi, Ed H ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers; Data mining; Databases; Human computer interaction; Information seeking support systems; Presses; Probability density function; Social computing; Social network services; Tagging; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249172016     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2009.87     Document Type: Article

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