Characteristics of geographic information needs

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-6

  Henrich, Andreas ^a   Lüdecke, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Human factors

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL RESULTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; HUMAN FACTORS; INFORMATION NEED;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77954326292     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1316948.1316950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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