The effect of social and physical detachment on information need

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Yom Tov, Elad ^a   Diaz, Fernando ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance; Information; Need; Physical; Social

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE; INFORMATION; NEED; PHYSICAL; SOCIAL;

SEARCH ENGINES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 84873911298     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2414782.2414786     Document Type: Article

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