Brief communication: Preliminary findings on searcher performance and perceptions Of performance in a hypertext bibliographic retrieval system

摘要

Hypertext a relatively new mechanism by which bibliographic searching may be performed. Searcher con- fidence in using the system and in retrieving relevant items may depend on several factors, such as the time they have taken or the number of record pages they have visited in the database. Confidence in their performance versus their actual performance may serve as an indicator or "reality check" of the system's utility.