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Jokic, Maja – Information Processing & Management, 1997
Investigates the search behavior of CD-ROM database users in Zagreb (Croatia) libraries: one group needed a minimum of technical assistance, and the other was completely independent. Highlights include the use of questionnaires and transaction log analysis and the need for end-user education. The questionnaire and definitions of search process…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Burns, Catherine M.; Vicente, Kim J. – Information Processing & Management, 1996
Describes an empirical evaluation that investigated the criteria by which designers of human-machine systems evaluate design information. Professional designers of nuclear power plant control rooms rated hypothetical information search questions in terms of relevance, importance, cost, and effort based on Rouse's model of information search…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Correlation, Costs, Designers