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The Turn [electronic resource] :Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context / by Peter Ingwersen, Kalervo Järvelin.

by Ingwersen, Peter [author.]; Järvelin, Kalervo [author.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: The Information Retrieval Series: 18Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.Description: XIV, 448 p. online resource.ISBN: 9781402038518.Subject(s): Computer science | Information storage and retrieval systems | Library science | Social sciences | Computer Science | Computer Science, general | Information Storage and Retrieval | User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction | Library Science | Social Sciences, generalDDC classification: 004 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
The Cognitive Framework for Information -- The Development of Information Seeking Research -- System-Oriented Information Retrieval -- Cognitive and User-Oriented Information Retrieval -- The Integrated IS&R Research Framework -- Implications of the Cognitive Framework for IS&R -- Towards a Research Program -- Conclusion.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: T The Turn analyzes the research of information seeking and retrieval (IS&R) and proposes a new direction of integrating research in these two areas: the fields should turn off their separate and narrow paths and construct a new avenue of research. An essential direction for this avenue is context as given in the subtitle Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context. Other essential themes in the book include: IS&R research models, frameworks and theories; search and works tasks and situations in context; interaction between humans and machines; information acquisition, relevance and information use; research design and methodology based on a structured set of explicit variables - all set into the holistic cognitive approach. The present monograph invites the reader into a construction project - there is much research to do for a contextual understanding of IS&R. The Turn represents a wide-ranging perspective of IS&R by providing a novel unique research framework, covering both individual and social aspects of information behavior, including the generation, searching, retrieval and use of information. Regarding traditional laboratory information retrieval research, the monograph proposes the extension of research toward actors, search and work tasks, IR interaction and utility of information. Regarding traditional information seeking research, it proposes the extension toward information access technology and work task contexts. The Turn is the first synthesis of research in the broad area of IS&R ranging from systems oriented laboratory IR research to social science oriented information seeking studies.
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The Cognitive Framework for Information -- The Development of Information Seeking Research -- System-Oriented Information Retrieval -- Cognitive and User-Oriented Information Retrieval -- The Integrated IS&R Research Framework -- Implications of the Cognitive Framework for IS&R -- Towards a Research Program -- Conclusion.

T The Turn analyzes the research of information seeking and retrieval (IS&R) and proposes a new direction of integrating research in these two areas: the fields should turn off their separate and narrow paths and construct a new avenue of research. An essential direction for this avenue is context as given in the subtitle Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context. Other essential themes in the book include: IS&R research models, frameworks and theories; search and works tasks and situations in context; interaction between humans and machines; information acquisition, relevance and information use; research design and methodology based on a structured set of explicit variables - all set into the holistic cognitive approach. The present monograph invites the reader into a construction project - there is much research to do for a contextual understanding of IS&R. The Turn represents a wide-ranging perspective of IS&R by providing a novel unique research framework, covering both individual and social aspects of information behavior, including the generation, searching, retrieval and use of information. Regarding traditional laboratory information retrieval research, the monograph proposes the extension of research toward actors, search and work tasks, IR interaction and utility of information. Regarding traditional information seeking research, it proposes the extension toward information access technology and work task contexts. The Turn is the first synthesis of research in the broad area of IS&R ranging from systems oriented laboratory IR research to social science oriented information seeking studies.

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