Evaluating interfaces for government metasearch

IIiX 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 Information Interaction in Context Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 65-74

  Thomas, Paul ^a   Noack, Katherine ^b   Paris, Cecile ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Case study; User interface evaluation

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CASE STUDY; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; INTEGRATING INFORMATION; INTERFACE DESIGNS; METASEARCH; OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS; SEARCH RESULTS; SOCIAL SERVICE; USER INTERFACE EVALUATION;

SEARCH ENGINES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 77957930944     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1840784.1840796     Document Type: Conference Paper

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