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Title: Towards automated consulting: Design feedback from the performance of online documentation

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OSTI ID:6077682

Usage monitoring of online documentation at a supercomputer center strongly suggests the importance of three strategies in the design of an effective ''consulting'' system to deliver full-text answer passages to end users: (1) persistent on-demand printing as well as online viewing make a shared database economically vital; (2) a broad range of subject queries makes retrieval on diverse topics through a single user interface psychologically beneficial to readers, and (3) vocabulary mismatch errors demand an active response to faulty search terms, but not at the cost of increased interface complexity.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
6077682
Report Number(s):
UCRL-96911; CONF-8610336-1; ON: DE87012243
Resource Relation:
Conference: 50. annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Boston, MA, USA, 4 Oct 1986; Other Information: Paper copy only, copy does not permit microfiche production
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English