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RESEARCH ARTICLE
THE INFLUENCE OF QUERY INTERFACE DESIGN ON DECISION-MAKING PERFORMANCE^ By: Cheri Speier Eli Broad College of Business Michigan State University East Lansing, Ml 48824 U.S.A.
[email protected] Michael G. Morris Mclntire School of Commerce University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22904 U.S.A.
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Abstract Managers in modern organizations are confronted with ever-increasing voiumes of information tiiat they must evaluate when making a decision. Data warehousing and data mining technologies have given managers a number of valuable toois that can help them store, retrieve, and analyze information contained in large databases: however, maximizing user performance with these toots remains a chaiienge for information systems professionais. One important and under-explored
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aspect of the effectiveness of these toois is the design of the query interface, in this study, we compared the use of visual and text-based interfaces on both low and high complexity tasir
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