Search result exploration: A preliminary study of blind and sighted user's decision making and performance

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1453-1456

  Ivory, Melody Y ^a   Yu, Shiqing ^b   Gronemyer, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Encysys Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Search; Usability; User interface; User study; Visual ability; WWW

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; SEARCH; USABILITY; USER STUDY; VISUAL ABILITIES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84876757898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/985921.986088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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