Health information portals: How can we improve the user's search experience?

17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fisher, Julie ^a   Burstein, Frada ^a   Rosetta, Manaszewicz ^a   Lazarenko, Kate ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Functionality; Health information portals; Usability

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY STUDIES; FUNCTIONALITY; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY; USABILITY; USABILITY EVALUATION;

HARDWARE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870687290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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