Sysadmins and the need for verification information

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology, CHiMiT '08

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Velasquez, Nicole F ^a   Durcikova, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information seeking; System administrator; Usability; Verification

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; GUI TOOLS; INFORMATION SEEKING; RISKY BUSINESS; SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR; SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS; TASK COMPLEXITY; USABILITY;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION USE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70350694451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1477973.1477979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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