An Overview of Results from Rutgers' Investigations of Interactive Information Retrieval

Belkin, Nicholas J.

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Title

An Overview of Results from Rutgers' Investigations of Interactive Information Retrieval

Author(s)

Belkin, Nicholas J.

Issue Date

1998

Keyword(s)

• digital Libraries
• electronic information resources
• subject access
• Rutgers
• Information Retrieval (IR)
• Human-computer interaction (HCI)

Abstract

Over the last four years, the Information Interaction Laboratory at Rutgers' School of Communication, Information and Library Studies has performed a series of investigations concerned with various aspects of people's interactions with advanced information retrieval (IR) systems. We have been especially concerned with understanding not just what people do, and why, and with what effect, but also with what they would like to do, and how they attempt to accomplish it, and with what difficulties. These investigations have led to some quite interesting conclusions about the nature and structure of people's interactions with information, about support for cooperative human-computer interaction in query reformulation, and about the value of visualization of search results for supporting various forms of interaction with information. In this discussion, I give an overview of the research program and its projects, present representative results from the projects, and discuss some implications of these results for support of subject searching in information retrieval systems.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Visualizing subject access for 21st century information resources [papers presented at the 1997 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, March 2-4, 1997 Urbana-Champaign]

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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