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Evaluating user interfaces to information retrieval systems: a case study on user support

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Giorgio Brajnik,

Stefano Mizzaro,

Carlo TassoAuthors Info & Claims

SIGIR '96: Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

Pages 128 - 136

https://doi.org/10.1145/243199.243249

Published: 18 August 1996 Publication History

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