Real-world user evaluations of a visual and interactive web search interface

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 119-126

  Hoeber, Orland ^a   Schroeder, Daniel ^b   Brooks, Michael ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY SEARCH; INTERACTIVE WEB SEARCH; QUERY REFINEMENT; REAL-WORLD; SEARCH ACTIVITY; SEARCH RESULTS; SEARCHING TASK; USER EVALUATIONS; USER STUDY; UTILITY OF INFORMATION;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 70449477364     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2009.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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