Since the beginning of the computer age, researchers from many disciplines have sought to
facilitate people's use of computers and to provide ways for scientists to make sense of the …

Intelligent software agents that can perform tasks on the user's behalf independently of direct
control of the user themselves, promise to evolutionize the way in which we use the Internet …

Online group buying has become increasingly prevalent, and people frequently shop on
group buying (GB) sites. This study examines the relationships among transaction cost …

No longitudinal studies on whether the acquisition information literacy requires formal
instruction or whether it just develops “naturally” have yet been published. Moreover, no …

We describe a user study that examined the relationship between the quality of an
Information Retrieval system and the effectiveness of its users in performing a task. The task …

We present in this paper the design and an evaluation of a novel interface called the
Relation Browser++(RB++) for searching and browsing large information collections. RB++ …

Purpose–The purpose of this article is to review the research on human‐computer interfaces
for library‐based commercial online information retrieval (IR) systems. Design/methodology …

Modern database management is often faced with a high number of concurrent end-users,
and the need for database distribution to ensure fault tolerance and high throughput. To …

This article investigates individual factors that determine success and failure in bibliographic
database searching. In line with previous research, we hypothesised that the low usability of …

Abstract The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) of the University of Maryland
and NASA have collaborated over three years to refine and apply user interface research …