Designing the user interface and functions of a search engine development tool

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 369-382

  Chau, Michael ^a   Wong, Cho Hung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Search engine development tools; User evaluation; Web search

Indexed keywords

BASIC FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER USERS; DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; EVALUATION STUDY; INTERFACE DESIGNS; SCREEN LAYOUT; SYSTEM INFORMATION; USER EVALUATIONS; WEB SEARCHES;

DESIGN; ENGINES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; TERMINOLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 71649113760     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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