How is a search system used in work task completion?

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-25

  Toms, Elaine G ^a   Villa, Robert ^a   McCay Peet, Lori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

evaluation; interactive information retrieval; search task; success; work task

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; INTERACTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH TASKS; SUCCESS; WORK TASK;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SAFETY DEVICES;

EID: 84873147161     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551512469929     Document Type: Article

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