A Multitasking Framework for Cognitive Information Retrieval

  • Amanda Spink
  • Charles Cole
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Part of the The Information Retrieval Series book series (INRE, volume 19)

Keywords

Information Retrieval Task Switching Information Seek Information Problem Multiple Topic 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Amanda Spink
    • 1
  • Charles Cole
    • 2
  1. 1.Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia
  2. 2.McGill UniversityCanada

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