A survey of patent users: An analysis of tasks, behavior, search functionality and system requirements

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 13-22

  Joho, Hideo ^a   Azzopardi, Leif ^b   Vanderbauwhede, Wim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Patent analysts; Patent engineers; User study

Indexed keywords

PATENT ANALYSTS; PATENT ENGINEERS; PATENT INFORMATION; PATENT SEARCH; SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS; USER STUDY;

ENGINEERS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 77957946459     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1840784.1840789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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