Interactive information seeking, behaviour and retrieval / edited by Ian Ruthven and Diane Kelly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ruthven, Ian, 1968- editor.

Kelly, Diane (Professor), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information retrieval.

Information behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvii, 296 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour & Retrieval

Place of Publication:

London : Facet, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Information retrieval (IR) is a complex human activity supported by sophisticated systems. Information science has contributed much to the design and evaluation of previous generations of IR system development and to our general understanding of how such systems should be designed and yet, due to the increasing success and diversity of IR systems, many recent textbooks concentrate on IR systems themselves and ignore the human side of searching for information. This book is the first text to provide an information science perspective on IR. Unique in its scope, the book covers the whole spectrum of information retrieval, including: history and background information; behaviour and seeking task-based information; searching and retrieval approaches to investigating information; interaction and behaviour information; representation access models; evaluation interfaces for IR; interactive techniques; web retrieval, ranking and personalization; and, recommendation, collaboration and social search multimedia: interfaces and access. A key text for senior undergraduates and masters' level students of all information and library studies courses, this book is also useful for practising LIS professionals who need to better appreciate how IR systems are designed, implemented and evaluated.

Contents:

Interactive information retrieval : history and background / Colleen Cool and Nicholas J. Belkin

Information behavior and seeking / Peiling Wang

Task-based information searching and retrieval / Elaine G. Toms

Approaches to investigating information interaction and behaviour / Raya Fidel

Information representation / Mark D. Smucker

Access models / Edie Rasmussen

Evaluation / Kalervo Järvelin

Interfaces for information retrieval / Max Wilson

Interactive techniques / Ryen W. White

Web retrieval, ranking and personalization / Jaime Teevan and Susan Dumais

Recommendation, collaboration and social search / David M. Nichols and Michael B. Twidale

Multimedia : behaviour, interfaces and interaction / Haiming Liu, Suzanne Little and Stefan Rüger

Multimedia : information representation and access / Suzanne Little, Evan Brown and Stefan Rüger

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781856049740

1856049744

OCLC:

879550844