Information retrieval interaction   Peter Ingwersen     ISBN 0 947568 54 9 1992 £30.00/US$55.00     Order this book   Recommend to library   Back   Home

CONTENTS   INFORMATION SCIENCE IN CONTEXT The emergence of information science The scope of information science     THE COGNITIVE VIEW AND INFORMATION The cognitive viewpoint versus cognitivism Understanding information in information science Information science seen as a cognitive science Hermeneutics in IR interaction Summary statements     INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Essential issues in IR Major IR research approaches - an overview     THE TRADITIONAL IR RESEARCH APPROACH Classification theories Indexing theory, controlled vocabulary issues Natural language representation IR technique developments Relevance measurement techniques Summary statements     THE USER-ORIENTED IR RESEARCH APPROACH The role of the intermediary and the user in IR Major empirical user studies Empirical investigations of user-intermediary-system interaction Pre-search interviewing investigations, excluding retrieval User-oriented analytic studies of IR interaction Summary of analytic and empirical user-oriented studies     IR INTERACTION - THE COGNITIVE TURN Personal cognitive structures relevant to IR Cognitive models for IR interaction Design and evaluation methodologies in IR interaction Summary statements     THE COGNITIVE IR RESEARCH APPROACH Selected intermediary designs in IR 'Intelligent' user model building vs supportive mechanisms in IR The supportive user model building approach Knowledge-based adaptive IR interaction Towards a contextual IR theory? Summary     THE MEDIATOR MODEL The framework of the Mediator Model The use of the framework     CONCLUSIONS