Effects of Low & High Literacy on User Performance in Information Search and Retrieval

Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction, BCS HCI 2008

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 173-181

  Kodagoda, Neesha ^a   Wong, B L William ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Information search; Information search task; Low and high literacy

Indexed keywords

E-GOVERNMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

HIGH COMPLEXITY; INFORMATION KIOSKS; INFORMATION SEARCH; INFORMATION SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL; LOW AND HIGH LITERACY; SOCIAL SERVICE; USER INTERFACE DESIGNS; USER PERFORMANCE;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84862110911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2008.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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