An exploratory study into perceived task complexity, topic specificity, and usefulness for integrated search

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An exploratory study into perceived task complexity, topic specificity, and usefulness for integrated search. / Ingwersen, Peter; Lioma, Christina; Larsen, Birger; Wang, Peiling.

Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium. Association for Computing Machinery, 2012. s. 302-305.

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › fagfællebedømt

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Ingwersen, P, Lioma, C, Larsen, B & Wang, P 2012, An exploratory study into perceived task complexity, topic specificity, and usefulness for integrated search. i Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium. Association for Computing Machinery, s. 302-305, 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium, Nijmegen, Holland, 21/08/2012. https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362780

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Ingwersen, P., Lioma, C., Larsen, B., & Wang, P. (2012). An exploratory study into perceived task complexity, topic specificity, and usefulness for integrated search. I Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (s. 302-305). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362780

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Ingwersen P, Lioma C, Larsen B, Wang P. An exploratory study into perceived task complexity, topic specificity, and usefulness for integrated search. I Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium. Association for Computing Machinery. 2012. s. 302-305 https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362780

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Ingwersen, Peter ; Lioma, Christina ; Larsen, Birger ; Wang, Peiling. / An exploratory study into perceived task complexity, topic specificity, and usefulness for integrated search. Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium. Association for Computing Machinery, 2012. s. 302-305

Bibtex

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