Information foraging models of browsers for very large document spaces

Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 83-93

  Pirolli, Peter ^a   Card, Stuart K ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive models; Information foraging theory; Information retrieval

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE MODEL; DOCUMENT COLLECTION; INFORMATION FORAGING; LINK STRUCTURE; ON-LINE INFORMATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; USER STRATEGIES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 84877282299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/948496.948509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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