Human speed-accuracy tradeoffs in search

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Aperjis, Christina ^a   Huberman, Bernardo A ^a   Wu, Fang ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE GAUSSIAN; TIME SPENT; WAITING-TIME;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 79952956553     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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