Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments

The emergence of the Internet allows millions of people to use a variety of electronic information retrieval systems, such as: digital libraries, Web search engines, online databases, and online public access catalogs. Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments provides theoretical framework in understanding the nature of information retrieval, and offers implications for the design and evolution of interactive information retrieval systems. Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments includes the integration of existing frameworks on user-oriented information retrieval systems across multiple disciplines; the comprehensive review of empirical studies of interactive information retrieval systems for different types of users, tasks, and subtasks; and the discussion of how to evaluate interactive information retrieval systems. Researchers, designers, teachers, scholars, and professionals will gain the foundation for new research on this subject matter, and guidance to evaluate new information retrieval systems for the general public as well as for specific user groups.

The emergence of the Internet allows millions of people to use a variety of electronic information retrieval systems, such as: digital libraries, Web search engines, online databases, and online public access catalogs. Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments provides theoretical framework in understanding the nature of information retrieval, and offers implications for the design and evolution of interactive information retrieval systems.

Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments includes the integration of existing frameworks on user-oriented information retrieval systems across multiple disciplines; the comprehensive review of empirical studies of interactive information retrieval systems for different types of users, tasks, and subtasks; and the discussion of how to evaluate interactive information retrieval systems. Researchers, designers, teachers, scholars, and professionals will gain the foundation for new research on this subject matter, and guidance to evaluate new information retrieval systems for the general public as well as for specific user groups.

Title 2 Table of Contents 4 Preface 7 Acknowledgment 24 Chapter I: User-Oriented IR Research Approaches 26 Chapter II: Interactive IR in OPAC Environments 54 Chapter III: Interactive IR in Online Database Environments 78 Chapter IV: Interactive IR in Web Search Engine Environments 108 Chapter V: Interactive IR in Digital Library Environments 141 Chapter VI: TREC and Interactive Track Environments 178 Chapter VII: Interactive IR Models 208 Chapter VIII: Interactive IR Framework 240 Chapter IX: Illustration and Validation of the Interactive IR Framework 288 Chapter X: Implications of the Planned-Situational Interactive IR Model 319 Chapter XI: Conclusions and Future Directions 359 About the Editor 373 Index 374 'This book includes the integration of existing frameworks on user-oriented information retrieval systems across multiple disciplines; the comprehensive review of empirical studies of interactive information retrieval systems for different types of users, tasks, and subtasks; and the discussion of how to evaluate interactive information retrieval systems'--Provided by publisher.