next up previous contents
Next: Initial Searches Up: Results Previous: Results

Session Summaries

Table 1a shows the number of sessions, queries and searches at the two locations, together with the mean number of queries per session, and searches per query.

Table 1b shows the mean, range, and standard deviation for the session time (in minutes and seconds) at each location. Mean times for INSPEC are considerably longer, reflecting perhaps the larger size of the database to be searched and the fact that documents containing abstracts take longer to read and judge. The range is artificially inflated by times for users who left the system without quitting.



PAYNE A
Wed Jul 3 14:11:32 BST 1996