Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments: 9781599042404: Computer Science & IT Books

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ISBN13: 9781599042404

EISBN13: 9781599042428

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-240-4

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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.

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This book develops a theoretical framework for information retrieval (IR) interaction and discusses its implications in the design and evaluation of IR systems in the digital age.

– Iris Xie, University of Wisconsin, USA

Technical manner that is best suited for seasoned researchers, librarians and computer savvy students.

– LBook News Inc. (June 2008)

The book is very structured and offers an impressive amount of depth and detail. [...] The book is a valuable reference, based on its large body of covered literature. The topical comprehensiveness and the self-contained chapters qualify it as a text book for a course in IIR. The book is also valuable as a guide for researchers who want to review the many facets of IIR and develop an understanding of the important issues worth researching. [...] [T]he book is dense and very rich in valuable information.

– Ralf Bierig, Springer Science+Business Media, 3 November 2010

Iris Xie is an associate professor in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests and expertise focus on information seeking and retrieving, in particular interactive information retrieval between users and IR systems and its implications for the design and evaluation of a variety of IR systems in the digital age. Dr. Xie won the dissertation award from the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) in 1999. She is the principal investigator on many research grants awarded by different agencies, which include the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), ALISE, etc. She has a strong record in publishing refereed articles and presenting at international conferences in the field of library and information science.

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