Attorneys Interacting with Legal Information Systems: Tools for Mental Model Building and Task Integration
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This paper reports (1) on the results of a user study and (2) search-history-based user interface tools developed based on the results of the study. The study examined legal information seekers’ use of their memory and externally recorded search histories in searching for and using information. The results reported here focus on mental model development and task integration across searching for and using information. The interface tools described support the creation of external representations of mental models through organizational schemes, user notes and annotations, and search plans; and they provide transition paths to information use.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002