The effect of activity on relevance and granularity for navigation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6899 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 73-89

  Hirtle, Stephen C ^a   Timpf, Sabine ^b   Tenbrink, Thora ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activities; granularity; navigation; relevance; routing; word clouds

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITIES; GRANULARITY; RELEVANCE; ROUTING; SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS;

NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 80053025007     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23196-4_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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