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Peer reviewedHaverkamp, Donna S.; Gauch, Susan – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
Discusses intelligent user interfaces, through which a user may query for information; explains the different types of intelligent online search assistants, or agents, which are used to support these interfaces. Describes several different agent systems. Concludes by discussing the current state of agents in information retrieval, especially as…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Interfaces, Information Retrieval, Information Sources
Mostafa, Javed; Dillon, Andrew – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1996
Describes the ViewFinder interface, designed at Indiana University as a client to a database server; it supports querying based on both visual and verbal clues. Presents results of usability analysis performed on ViewFinder with 18 users. High search success rates were achieved through both types of querying means; verbal clues were used more than…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
