The objective of the paper is to amalgamate theories of text retrieval from various research
traditions into a cognitive theory for information retrieval interaction. Set in a cognitive …

The objectives of the study were to conduct a series of observations and experiments under
as real‐life a situation as possible related to:(i) user context of questions in information …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Significant amounts of our time and energy are devoted to creating, managing, and avoiding
information. Computers and telecommunications technology have extended our regard for …

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 …

This paper provides overview and instruction regarding the evaluation of interactive
information retrieval systems with users. The primary goal of this article is to catalog and …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

The truly world-wide reach of the Web has brought with it a new realisation of the enormous
importance of usability and user interface design. In the last ten years, much has become …

Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people
search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we …

Information seeking is a fundamental human activity. In the modern world, it is frequently
conducted through interactions with search systems. The retrieval and comprehension of …