Reconsideration of the simulated work task situation: A context instrument for evaluation of information retrieval interaction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 155-164

  Borlund, Pia ^a   Schneider, Jesper W ^a  

^a ROYAL SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Interactive information retrieval; Methods and methodologies; Simulated work task situations; Systems evaluation; User studies

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES; SYSTEMS EVALUATION; USER STUDY; WORK TASK;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77957937905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1840784.1840808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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